e speaker and the sun (an extended metaphor of time throughout the poem), effectively deflating any notion of the morning hymn as a praise of the sun. In this case, the sun becomes an intruder rather than a blessing.
             The 3rd line of the poem: "Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?" sets the main theme of the poem's discourse; namely the freeing of love from temporal or spatial demands (the sun's orbit is thus symbolic of the course of time).
             This distinction is elaborated in the following lines, where Donne opposes the sphere of privacy (love) to that of the outer world of "... l
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