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Portrait of John Donne John Donne,  A Valediction: Of My Name, in the Window

“ When love and grief their exaltation had,
⁠No door 'gainst this name's influence shut.
⁠As much more loving, as more sad,
'Twill make thee; and thou shouldst, till I return,
⁠Since I die daily, daily mourn.
VIII.
⁠When thy inconsiderate hand
Flings open this casement, with my trembling name,
⁠To look on one, whose wit or land
⁠New battery to thy heart may frame,
Then think this name alive, and that thou thus
⁠In it offend'st my Genius.
”
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