about liberty as something that is birthright property, and then asks the question if there is anything that’s your own. Either this is a mark that some, like him, were robbed in the Civil War, robbed of something that was important for them. If Lucasta is both Liberty ,in its allegoric meaning, and Lucy then it is a moment of of life. Lucy was probably wedded by the time Lovelace wrote the poem in the prison. Reformation is shown like it was a two-edged sword, both as one that protects,