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To Electra (5)

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Shall I go to Love and tell,
Thou art all turned icicle?
Shall I say her altars be
Disadorn’d and scorn’d by thee?
O beware! in time submit;
Love has yet no wrathful fit:
If her patience turns to ire,
Love is then consuming fire.

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