To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

by Richard Lovelace (1649) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A soldier's farewell that turns a leaving into a kind of love letter: I could not love you so, loved I not honour more.

TELL me not Sweet I am unkind,

That from the Nunnery

Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind,

To War and Armes I fly.
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Themes: long-distance