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UPON LOVE (8) by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: IN A DREAME, LOVE BAD ME GO
Last Line: AND WARN'D BEFORE, WO'D NOT BEWARE.
Subject(s): LOVE;
In a Dreame, Love bad me go
To the Gallies there to Rowe;
In the Vision I askt, why?
Love as briefly did reply;
'Twas better there to toyle, then prove
The turmoiles they endure that love.
I awoke, and then I knew
What Love said was too too true:
Henceforth therefore I will be
As from Love, from trouble free.
None pities him that's in the snare,
And warn'd before, wo'd not beware.



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