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A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick

193. HOW PANSIES OR HEARTS-EASE CAME FIRST

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Frolic virgins once these were, Overloving, living here; Being here their ends denied Ran for sweet-hearts mad, and died. Love, in pity of their tears, And their loss in blooming years, For their restless here-spent hours, Gave them hearts-ease turn'd to flowers.

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