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GUANTE: Next up, representing Wabasha - Kellog High School
Luke Smit.
(applause)
LUKE SMIT: Lovers' Infiniteness
By John Donne If yet I have not all thy love,
Dear, I shall never have it all;
I cannot breathe one other sigh, to move,
Nor can intreat one other tear to fall;
And all my treasure, which should purchase thee-
Sighs, tears, and oaths, and letters-I have spent.
Yet no more can be due to me, Than at the bargain made was
meant; If then thy gift of love were
partial, That some to me, some should to
others fall, Dear, I shall never have thee
all. Or if then thou gavest me all,
All was but all, which thou hadst then;
But if in thy heart, since, there be or shall
New love created be, by other men,
Which have their stocks entire, and can in tears,
In sighs, in oaths, and letters, outbid me,
This new love may beget new fears,
For this love was not vow'd by thee.
And yet it was, thy gift being general;
The ground, thy heart, is mine; whatever shall
Grow there, dear, I should have it all.
Yet I would not have all yet, He that hath all can have no
more; And since my love doth every
day admit New growth, thou shouldst have
new rewards in store; Thou canst not every day give
me thy heart, If thou canst give it, then
thou never gavest it; Love's riddles are, that though
thy heart depart, It stays at home, and thou with
losing savest it; But we will have a way more
liberal, Than changing hearts, to join
them; so we shall Be one, and one another's all.