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Songs and Their Settings: Sweet and Twenty
By William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
From ‘Twelfth Night’
O
Oh, stay, for here your true love’s coming,
That can sing both high and low.
Trip no farther, pretty sweeting:
Journeys end in lovers’ meeting,
Every wise man’s son doth know.
What is love? ’tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What’s to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,—
Youth’s a stuff will not endure.