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What does it mean?
Love does not change with seasons, weather, or time.
In plain terms
Love is the same no matter when or where it happens.
What can you take from it?
True love ignores the passing of time.

Where it applies

  • long-distance love
  • enduring bonds
  • age differences

Putting it to work

  • affirming commitment
  • valuing timelessness

Questions to consider

  • Does true love really ignore time?
  • What changes about love over years?

Another view

It idealizes love as immune to time's effects.

More from John Donne

  1. Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?

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  2. She is all states, and all princes, I, Nothing else is.

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  3. And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

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