LOVE ME LITTLE, LOVE ME LONG.
by Robert Herrick
YOU say, to me-wards your affection's strong ;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.
Slowly goes far : the mean is best : desire,
Grown violent, does either die or tire.
Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 61.
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