[00:23.10]'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's,[00:32.94]Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks;[00:34.23]The sun is spent, and now his flasks[00:35.07]Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;[00:42.36]The world's whole sap is sunk;[00:42.96]The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk,[00:44.01]Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk,[00:51.45]Dead and interr'd; yet all these seem to laugh,[01:12.15]Compared with me, who am their epitaph.[01:25.83]Study me then, you who shall lovers be[01:31.71]At the next world, that is, at the next spring;[01:42.39]For I am every dead thing,[01:43.62]In whom Love wrought new alchemy.[01:51.15]For his art did express[01:51.72]A quintessence even from nothingness,[02:12.45]From dull privations, and lean emptiness;[02:20.67]He ruin'd me, and I am re-begot[02:26.31]Of absence, darkness, death - things which are not.[02:37.14]All others, from all things, draw all that's good,[02:45.18]Life, soul, form, spirit, whence they being have;[02:48.09]I, by Love's limbec, am the grave[02:48.72]Of all, that's nothing. Oft a flood[03:08.91]Have we two wept, and so[03:12.42]Drown'd the whole world, us two; oft did we grow,[03:24.57]To be two chaoses, when we did show[03:25.62]Care to aught else; and often absences[03:30.18]Withdrew our souls, and made us carcasses.[03:53.04]But I am by her death - which word wrongs her -[03:58.38]Of the first nothing the elixir grown;[04:00.39]Were I a man, that I were one[04:13.92]I needs must know; I should prefer,[04:23.85]If I were any beast,[04:27.60]Some ends, some means; yea plants, yea stones detest,[04:38.28]And love; all, all some properties invest.[05:00.09]If I an ordinary nothing were,[05:00.72]As shadow, a light, and body must be here.[05:11.34]But I am none; nor will my sun renew.[05:42.36]You lovers, for whose sake the lesser sun[06:16.26]At this time to the Goat is run[06:16.86]To fetch new lust, and give it you,[06:17.52]Enjoy your summer all,[06:18.00]Since she enjoys her long night's festival.[06:19.02]Let me prepare towards her, and let me call[06:19.92]This hour her vigil, and her eve, since this[06:21.03]Both the year's and the day's deep midnight is.