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Courage Cooled

by Robert Herrick, 1648

I cannot love as I have lov’d before;
For I’m grown old and, with mine age, grown poor.
Love must be fed by wealth: this blood of mine
Must needs wax cold, if wanting bread and wine.

Published in Hesperides
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