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Upon Love (4)

by Robert Herrick, 1648

I held Love’s head while it did ache;
  But so it chanc’d to be,
The cruel pain did his forsake,
  And forthwith came to me.

Ay me! how shall my grief be still’d?
  Or where else shall we find
One like to me, who must be kill’d
  For being too-too kind?

Published in Hesperides
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