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Barley-break; Or, Last In Hell

by Robert Herrick, 1648

We two are last in hell; what may we fear
To be tormented or kept pris’ners here?
Alas! if kissing be of plagues the worst,
We’ll wish in hell we had been last and first.

Published in Hesperides
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