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If they be two, they are two so

Quote byJohn Donne · 1572–1631

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Songs and Sonnets, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, stanza 7.

English (original)

If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.

— John Donne

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