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A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick

210. HOW SPRINGS CAME FIRST

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These springs were maidens once that loved, But lost to that they most approved: My story tells, by Love they were Turn'd to these springs which we see here: The pretty whimpering that they make, When of the banks their leave they take, Tells ye but this, they are the same, In nothing changed but in their name.

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