HOW SPRINGS CAME FIRST.
by Robert Herrick


THESE springs were maidens once that lov'd,
But lost to that they most approv'd :
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 chang'd but in their name.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 225.


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