Love

Now let her change and spare not!

by Thomas Campion 1567–1620

From The Third Book of Airs (c. 1617)

Love

Now let her change and spare not!
Since she proves strange I care not:
Feigned love charmed so my delight
That still I doted on her sight.
But she is gone, new joys embracing
And my desires disgracing.

When did I err in blindness,
Or vex her with unkindness?
If my cares served her alone,
Why is she thus untimely gone?
True love abides to th' hour of dying:
False love is ever flying.

False! then, farewell for ever!
Once false proves faithful never:
He that boasts now of thy love,
Shall soon my present fortunes prove.
Were he as fair as bright Adonis,
Faith is not had, where none is.

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The Third Book of Airs (c. 1617)

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Campion, Thomas. “Now let her change and spare not!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/campion/70/.

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Campion, Thomas. “Now let her change and spare not!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/campion/70/.

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