Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIP-LABOUR, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: In the old scripture I have often read
Last Line: Without the heart, lip-labour nothing is.


In the old Scripture I have often read,
The calfe without meale n'ere was offered;
To figure to us, nothing more then this,
Without the heart, lip-labour nothing is.





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