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OF LOVE. by Robert Herrick I DO not love, nor can it be Love will in vain spend shafts on me ; I did this godhead once defy, Since which I freeze, but cannot fry. Yet out, alas ! the death's the same, Kill'd by a frost or by a flame. |  Caravaggio. Sleeping Cupid. 1608. |
Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 194.
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