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Lyric Poem · Love

How Springs Came First

by Robert Herrick

These springs were maidens once that loved,

But lost to that they most approved:

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 changed but in their name.

This poem is in the public domain.

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