Song (O Mistress Mine)
by William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
O, mistress mine, where are you roaming?While yesterday's poem was noted to be from "Cymbeline," there is no notice that this is from "Twelfth Night." I wonder why. Was the latter considered too lascivious for children's minds in 1933?
O stay and hear---your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low.
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers' meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet-and-twenty---
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
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