So Parted You

So parted you, as if the world

Forever had lost within a light

Now could your tears hard flint to wrath excite

Yet may you never your loves again partake in human sight

O why should love such two kind hearts dissever

As nature never knit more fair or firm together?

So loved you, as sister should a brother

Not in a common strain

For princely blood doth vulgar far disdain

But you each other on earth embarked in a celestial chain

O less for love that heavenly-born affection

To change should subject be and suffer earth's infection