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On Himself (2)

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Love-sick I am, and must endure
A desperate grief, that finds no cure.
Ah me! I try; and trying, prove
No herbs have power to cure love.

Only one sovereign salve I know,
And that is death, the end of woe.

Published in Hesperides
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