better hemispheres

My favorite poem in the entire world is John Donne's A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, but I'm not going to post it, because I posted it on my birthday three years ago, and I posted it a year and a half ago for a poetry meme, and I try not to repeat myself too often. Here is a different John Donne poem about love; this one is for you guys.

I wonder by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not wean'd till then?
But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den?
'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be;
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone;
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown;
Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally;
If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.

~John Donne (1572-1631), The Good-Morrow.

Thus far today I have had excellent Thai food, put money in the bank, gotten free iced tea and a cupcake at my favorite tea house, and tried on ridiculous hats. I also did a little bit of work, and laughed at my Mom when she called to wish me happy birthday from a Starbucks line in an airport, and started planning my summer vacation to Mexico. Later, I am going to go sit by the lake with some friends, and eat fried food, and probably wish I had bug spray, because it is gorgeous, and very hot, and feels like summer.