Song : Go, And Catch A Falling Star
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| English Poem | |
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| Song : Go, And Catch A Falling Star | |
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| Subject | English |
| Section | Poetry |
| Paper | 2 |
| Poet | John Donne |
| On syllabus | 2007, 2008 |
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The Song
- GO and catch a falling star,
- Get with child a mandrake root,
- Tell me where all past years are,
- Or who cleft the devil's foot,
- Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
- Or to keep off envy's stinging,
- And find
- What wind
- Serves to advance an honest mind.
- If thou be'st born to strange sights,
- Things invisible to see,
- Ride ten thousand days and nights,
- Till age snow white hairs on thee,
- Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me,
- All strange wonders that befell thee,
- And swear,
- No where
- Lives a woman true and fair.
- If thou find'st one, let me know,
- Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
- Yet do not, I would not go,
- Though at next door we might meet,
- Though she were true, when you met her,
- And last, till you write your letter,
- Yet she
- Will be
- False, ere I come, to two, or three.
