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OF LOVE; A SONNET by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: HOW LOVE CAME IN, I DO NOT KNOW
Last Line: THE OUT-LET THEN IS FROM THE HEART.
Subject(s): LOVE - BEGINNINGS;
How Love came in, I do not know,
Whether by th' eye, or eare, or no:
Or whether with the soule it came
(At first) infused with the same:
Whether in part 'tis here or there,
Or, like the soule, whole every where:
This troubles me: but I as well
As any other, this can tell;
That when from hence she does depart,
The out-let then is from the heart.



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