<Dd> Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die . (lines 20--21) </Dd> <P> While the version found in Songs and Sonnets includes this passage as the last two lines, other manuscripts and a later volume of poetry give the last lines as, "If our two loves be one, both thou and I / Love just alike in all, none of these loves can die". </P> <P> A love poem, "The Good - Morrow" is thematically centred on several concepts . The poem is primarily to do with evolving love; the movement from pure lust, in the first stanza, to a nascent and evolving spirituality which liberates the lovers because they no longer "watch each other out of fear" but can instead see clearly . The lovers' faith in each other allows them to be brave, unlike the Seven Sleepers, who were forced out of fear to hide their beliefs; with love, the lovers can allow others to pursue their own dreams, accepting that "Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one"--with each other, there is no need to search further for adventure . Harold Bloom notes the intertwining of both sensual and spiritual love, arguing that Donne is suggesting that it is impossible for those buried in sensual love, "busying themselves in mundane matters", to experience true love . Donne's emphasis on the importance of spiritual love can be seen from the biblical allusions; Achsah Guibbory states that the tone and wording of the poem is an intentional reference to Paul the Apostle's description of divine, agapic love; "At moments like these...eros merges with agape . Walls collapse, the veil parts, we know as we are known; our deepest, truest selves exposed". Alfred W. Satterthwaite, writing in The Explicator, argues that the story of the Seven Sleepers itself contains this theme; in the story, the Sleepers awoke to find themselves "thunderstruck" in their new environment, something analogous to "the radiant revelation love grants to the lovers in the poem". </P> <P> Some scholars, such as William Empson, maintain that the poem also indicates that Donne seriously believed in separate planets and planes, and also the existence of more than one Christ--a belief that Donne later abandoned . Academics also see the poem as a more general allegory of the evolution of minds from childishness, as typified by the first stanza where the lovers "suck'd on country pleasures, childishly", towards a more mature form of love . Much has also been made of Donne's references to compasses and maps in the third stanza . Robert L. Sharp, writing in Modern Language Notes, argues that these references can be logically interpreted as yet another reference to love . The maps Donne would have been familiar with are not the Mercator - style maps, but instead cordiform maps, which appear in the shape of a heart . More than simply heart - shaped, cordiform maps also allow the display of multiple worlds, with opposing hemispheres--and Sharp argues that Donne's work references such a multiple world map in lines 11 to 18 . </P>

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