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To Anthea (4)

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Come, Anthea, know thou this,
Love at no time idle is;
Let’s be doing, though we play
But at push-pin half the day;
Chains of sweet bents let us make
Captive one, or both, to take:
In which bondage we will lie,
Souls transfusing thus, and die.

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