by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)

In a dream, Love bade me go
Language: English 
       In a dream, Love bade me go
       To the galleys there to row ;
       In the vision I ask'd why ?
       Love as briefly did reply,
'Twas better there to toil, than prove
The turmoils they endure that love.
       I awoke, and then I knew
       What Love said was too-too true ;
       Henceforth therefore I will be,
       As from love, from trouble free.
None pities him that's in the snare,
And warn'd before would not beware.

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Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick, Vol II, ed. by Alfred Pollard, London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, page 20.


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