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My heart and tongue were twins

Tekst: anoniem

My heart and tongue were twins at once conceived,
Th'eldest was my heart, born dumb by Destiny,
The last my tongue, of all sweet thoughts bereaved:
Yet strung and tun'd to play heart's harmony.
Both knit in one and yet asunder placed:
What heart would speak the tongue doth still discover.

What tongue doth speak is of the heart embraced,
And both are one to make a new found lover
New found, and only found in gods and kings,
Whose words are deeds, but words nor deeds regarded.
Chaste thoughts do mount and fly with swiftest wings,
My love with pain, my pain with loss rewarded.

Then this be sure, since it is true perfection,
That neither men nor gods can force affection.

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Mijn hart en tong zijn getweeën gekomen

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Mijn hart en tong zijn getweeën gekomen,
De oudere was mijn hart, door het Lot stom geboren,
De jongere mijn tong, alle zoete gedachten ontnomen:
Maar gelijkgestemd met het hart in samenklank te horen.
Beide verstrengeld tot één en desalniettemin apart:
Wat het hart te zeggen heeft maakt de tong steeds openbaar.

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