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A Short Hymn To Venus

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Goddess, I do love a girl,
Ruby-lipp’d and tooth’d with pearl;
If so be I may but prove
Lucky in this maid I love,
I will promise there shall be
Myrtles offer’d up to thee.

Published in Hesperides
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