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- # Sonnet 45
## Overview
This is a sonnet, identified as "Sonnet 45," extracted from the text file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA). It is part of the poetry collection [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF). The sonnet's text spans from line 11011 to 11034 within the source file.
## Context
The sonnet is included in the [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF) collection, which is a compilation of William Shakespeare's works in facsimile editions. This collection is associated with the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection, indicating it is part of a digital workflow for processing PDF documents. "Sonnet 45" is preceded by [Sonnet 44](arke:01KG6S4C62DGZ81AAM64R0ANMQ) and followed by [Sonnet 46](arke:01KG6S4C5Z8V60ZBB2EP2XMX7B) within the collection.
## Contents
"Sonnet 45" explores themes of absence and presence through the imagery of the four elements. The speaker laments the absence of the beloved, expressing how two elements ("flight ayre, and purging fire") are with the beloved, representing thought and desire. The speaker's life, composed of all four elements, diminishes to melancholy in the absence of the other two. The sonnet concludes with a cycle of joy and sadness, as the speaker sends and recalls these elemental messengers.
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- The other two, flight ayre, and purging fire,
Are both with thee, where euer I abide,
The first my thought, the other my desire,
These present absent with swift motion slide.
For when these quicker Elements are gone
In tender Embassie of love to thee,
My life being made of foure, with two alone,
Sinkdoos down to death, oppress with melancholie.
Vitill lines composition be recured,
By those swift messengers return’d from thee,
Who euen but now come back againe assured,
Of their faire health, recounting it to me.
This told, I joy, but then no longer glad,
I send them back againe and straight grow sad.
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