“Yesternight the sun went hence,
And yet is here today.”

— John Donne

Source: A line from a poem/song: Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go. Full version https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song:_Sweetest_love,_I_do_not_go
Context: SWEETEST love, I do not go,
⁠For weariness of thee,
Nor in hope the world can show
⁠A fitter love for me;
⁠But since that I
At the last must part, 'tis best,
Thus to use myself in jest
⁠By feigned deaths to die.

Yesternight the sun went hence,
⁠And yet is here to-day;
He hath no desire nor sense,
⁠Nor half so short a way;
⁠Then fear not me,
But believe that I shall make
Speedier journeys, since I take
⁠More wings and spurs than he.

O how feeble is man's power,
⁠That if good fortune fall,
Cannot add another hour,
⁠Nor a lost hour recall;
⁠But come bad chance,
And we join to it our strength,
And we teach it art and length,
⁠Itself o'er us to advance.

When thou sigh'st, thou sigh'st not wind,
⁠But sigh'st my soul away;
When thou weep'st, unkindly kind,
⁠My life's blood doth decay.
⁠It cannot be
That thou lovest me as thou say'st,
If in thine my life thou waste,
⁠That art the best of me.

Let not thy divining heart
⁠Forethink me any ill;
Destiny may take thy part,
⁠And may thy fears fulfil.
⁠But think that we
Are but turn'd aside to sleep.
They who one another keep
⁠Alive, ne'er parted be.

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John Donne115

English poet 1572–1631

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1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
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