Had we but world enough, and time, (if we were to live forever I'd seduce you)
This coyness, lady, were no crime. (Ln 1-2 interruption, comfortable with slowness of time)
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side (formal and refers to human geography to flatter)
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain I would
Love you ten years before the flood, (referring to the bible; aim is to flatter)
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews;
My vegatable love should grow (slow…
