Woman's Constancy

by John Donne

  


NOW thou hast loved me one whole day,

  To-morrow when thou leavest, what wilt thou say?

  Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow?

   Or say that now

  We are not just those persons which we were?

  Or that oaths made in reverential fear

  Of Love, and his wrath, any may forswear?

  Or, as true deaths true marriages untie,

  So lovers' contracts, images of those,

  Bind but till sleep, death's image, them unloose?

   Or, your own end to justify,

  For having purposed change and falsehood, you

  Can have no way but falsehood to be true?

  Vain lunatic, against these 'scapes I could

   Dispute, and conquer, if I would;

   Which I abstain to do,

  For by to-morrow I may think so too.


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