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Against Love

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Whene’er my heart love’s warmth but entertains,
Oh frost! oh snow! oh hail! forbid the banes.
One drop now deads a spark, but if the same
Once gets a force, floods cannot quench the flame.
Rather than love, let me be ever lost,
Or let me ‘gender with eternal frost.

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