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HOW SPRINGS CAME FIRST

by Robert Herrick

Renaissance · Short · 8 lineslove

These springs were maidens once that loved, But lost to that they most approved: My story tells, by Love they were Turn'd to these springs which we see here: The pretty whimpering that they make, When of the banks their leave they take, Tells ye but this, they are the same, In nothing changed but in their name.

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Public domain. Source: PoetryDB. Reproduced verbatim; see theanthology for the full collection.

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