Promise This -- When You be Dying --

Promise This -- When You be Dying --
Some One[^a1]Some shall summon Me --
Mine belong Your latest Sighing --
Mine -- to Belt Your Eye --

[^a1: Some One | Some One]

Not with Coins -- though they be Minted
From an Emperor's Hand --
Be my lips -- the only Buckle
Your meek --[^a2]low Eyes -- demand --

[^a2: meek -- | meek --]

Mine to stay -- when all have wandered --
To devise once more
If the Life be too surrendered --
Life of Mine -- restore --

Poured like this -- My Whole Libation --
Just that You should see
Bliss of Death -- Life's Bliss surpass in More resembling You --[^a3]extol thro
More resembling You[^a4]Imitating You --

[^a3: surpass in More resembling You -- | surpass in More resembling You --]

[^a4: More resembling You | More resembling You]

Mine -- to guard Your Narrow Precinct --
To entice --[^a5]persuade[^a6]seduce the Sun
latest[^a7]Longest on Your South, to linger,
newest --[^a8]freshest[^a9]Largest Dews of Morn

[^a5: entice -- | entice --]

[^a6: persuade | persuade]

[^a7: latest | latest]

[^a8: newest -- | newest --]

[^a9: freshest | freshest]

To demand, in Your low favor
Lest the Jealous Grass
Greener lean -- Or later linger[^a10]fonder cluster
Round some other face --

[^a10: later linger | later linger]

Mine to supplicate Madonna --
If Madonna be
Could regard so scarce a Creature --[^a11]Could regard[^a12]behold so small --[^a13]dim[^a14]far a Creature --
Christ -- omitted -- Me --

[^a11: Could regard so scarce a Creature -- | Could regard so scarce a Creature --]

[^a12: regard | regard]

[^a13: small -- | small --]

[^a14: dim | dim]

Still[^a15]Just to follow Your dear feature --
Ne'er so far behind --
For My Heaven --
Of All Her Glories --[^a16]Had I not been
Worthiest -- to have gained --[^a17]Amplest --[^a18]Most enough -- denied?

[^a15: Still | Still]

[^a16: Of All Her Glories -- | Of All Her Glories --]

[^a17: Worthiest -- to have gained -- | Worthiest -- to have gained --]

[^a18: Amplest -- | Amplest --]