love makes the world go round

Bid me to live and I will live they protestant to be;
Or bid me love and I will give a loving heart to thee.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free
As in the whole world thou canst find, that heart I’ll give to thee.
Bid that heart to stay to honour thy decree:
Or bid it languish quite away and ‘t do so for thee.
Bid me to weep and I will weep while I have eyes to see:
And having none, yet I will Keep a heart to weep for thee.
Bid me depair and I’ll despair under that Cypress-tree:
Or bid me die and I will dare e’en death to die for thee.
Thou art my life, my love, my heart, the very eyes of me;
And hast command of every part to live and die for thee.
Robert Herrick

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