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TO SILVIA TO WED by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: LET US (THOUGH LATE) AT LAST (MY SILVIA) WED
Last Line: NO MAN AT ONE TIME, CAN BE WISE, AND LOVE.
Subject(s): MARRIAGE; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;
Let us (though late) at last (my Silvia) wed;
And loving lie in one devoted bed.
Thy Watch may stand, my minutes fly poste haste;
No sound calls back the yeere that once is past.
Then sweetest Silvia, let's no longer stay;
True love, we know, precipitates delay.
Away with doubts, all scruples hence remove;
No man at one time, can be wise, and love.



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