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Upon Love (5)

by Robert Herrick, 1648

I played with Love, as with the fire
  The wanton Satyr did;
Nor did I know, or could descry
  What under there was hid.

That Satyr he but burnt his lips;
  But mine’s the greater smart,
For kissing Love’s dissembling chips
  The fire scorch’d my heart.

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