Sunday, January 19, 2014

Volta project, part 145

Can’t believe the weekend’s already over  L 
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CXLV

  Those lips that Love's own hand did make,
  Breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate',
  To me that languish'd for her sake:
  But when she saw my woeful state,
  Straight in her heart did mercy come,
  Chiding that tongue that ever sweet
  Was us'd in giving gentle doom;
  And taught it thus anew to greet;
  'I hate' she alter'd with an end,
  That followed it as gentle day,
  Doth follow night, who like a fiend
  From heaven to hell is flown away.
    'I hate', from hate away she threw,
    And sav'd my life, saying 'not you'.
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Okay, an exceptionally early volta:  It’s the but at the beginning of line 4.  That’s partly compensated by delaying the rest of the direct speech to the last two words of the poem.

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