... perfect, he can endure the physical absence of his lover. "Our two souls, therefore, which are one/ Though I must go, endure not yet/ A breach, but an expansion/ Like gold to airy thinness beat."" In the last line of stanza 6, Donne compares his love to gold. Unlike the laity, his love is never separated - they do not snap apart, they simply stretch ... ...

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