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BARYLY-BREAK; OR LAST IN HELL by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: WE TWO ARE LAST IN HELL: WHAT MAY WE FEARE
Last Line: WE'LL WISH, IN HELL WE HAD BEEN LAST AND FIRST.
Subject(s): HELL;

We two are last in Hell: what may we feare
To be tormented, or kept Pris'ners here?
Alas! If kissing be of plagues the worst,
We'll wish, in Hell we had been Last and First.



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