Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part.Idea 61: Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part, by Michael Drayton. Recited by Kurt Sepmeier.
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me;
And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart,
That thus so cleanly I myself can free.
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again,
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
Now at the last gasp of Love’s latest breath,
When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies;
When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And Innocence is closing up his eyes—
Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,
From death to life thou might’st him yet recover!
Sepmeier talks dispassionately about falling into all that was the Renaissance, then his eyes well up and his voice falters as he relates a breakup. It was a sudden breakup: The couple just stopped talking to each other, leaving him unresolved and no doubt hurting.
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