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HIS RECANTATION by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOVE, I RECANT
Last Line: AND SLAVE IT IN AN HOURE.
Subject(s): LOVE - COMPLAINTS;
Love, I recant,
And pardon crave,
That lately I offended,
But 'twas,
Alas,
To make a brave,
But no disdaine intended.

No more Ile vaunt,
For now I see,
Thou onely hast the power,
To find,
And bind
A heart that's free,
And slave it in an houre.



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