Sonnet 34 - With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee

1With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee

2As those, when thou shalt call me by my name—

3Lo, the vain promise! is the same, the same,

4Perplexed and ruffled by life's strategy?

5When called before, I told how hastily

6I dropped my flowers or brake off from a game,

7To run and answer with the smile that came

8At play last moment, and went on with me

9Through my obedience. When I answer now,

10I drop a grave thought, break from solitude;

11Yet still my heart goes to thee—ponder how—

12Not as to a single good, but all my good!

13Lay thy hand on it, best one, and allow

14That no child's foot could run fast as this blood.