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HOW SPRINGS CAME FIRST by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: THESE SPRINGS WERE MAIDENS ONCE THAT LOVED
Last Line: IN NOTHING CHANGED BUT IN THEIR NAME.
Subject(s): SPRINGS (WATER);
THESE springs were maidens once that loved,
But, lost to that they most approved,
My story tells, by Love they were
Turned 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.



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