Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: –
So many times do I love again.
Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
Think not because you are now wed
That all your courtship’s at an end.
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: –
So many times do I love again.
Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
Think not because you are now wed
That all your courtship’s at an end.