Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HOW SPRINGS CAME FIRST, by ROBERT HERRICK



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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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