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The poetical works of Robert Herrick

Edited by F. W. Moorman
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674)

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Paine and pleasure.

God suffers not His Saints, and Servants deere,
To have continuall paine, or pleasure here:
But look how night succeeds the day, so He
Gives them by turnes their grief and jollitie.
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