Friendship's Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia



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  COme, my Lucasia, since we see
    That Miracles Mens faith do move,
    By wonder and by prodigy
  To the dull angry world let's prove
    There's a Religion in our Love.

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  For though we were design'd t' agree,
    That Fate no liberty destroyes,
  But our Election is as free
    As Angels, who with greedy choice
   Are yet determin'd to their joyes.

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 Our hearts are doubled by the loss,
   Here Mixture is Addition grown ;
 We both diffuse, and both ingross :
   And we whose minds are so much one,
   Never, yet ever are alone.

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 We court our own Captivity
   Than Thrones more great and innocent :
 'Twere banishment to be set free,
   Since we wear fetters whose intent
   Not Bondage is, but Ornament.

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 Divided joyes are tedious found,
   And griefs united easier grow :
 We are our selves but by rebound,
   And all our Titles shuffled so,
   Both Princes, and both Subjects too.

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 Our Hearts are mutual Victims laid,
   While they (such power in Friendship lies)
 Are Altars, Priests, and Off'rings made :
   And each Heart which thus kindly dies,
   Grows deathless by the Sacrifice.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 20, 2023

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Katherine Philips

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