| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Robert Herrick. 1591–1674 |
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| 269. Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love |
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| WHAT needs complaints, | |
| When she a place | |
| Has with the race | |
| Of saints? | |
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| In endless mirth | 5 |
| She thinks not on | |
| What 's said or done | |
| In Earth. | |
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| She sees no tears, | |
| Or any tone | 10 |
| Of thy deep groan | |
| She hears: | |
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| Nor does she mind | |
| Or think on 't now | |
| That ever thou | 15 |
| Wast kind; | |
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| But changed above, | |
| She likes not there, | |
| As she did here, | |
| Thy love. | 20 |
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| Forbear therefore, | |
| And lull asleep | |
| Thy woes, and weep | |
| No more. | |
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