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[How do they err, who throw their Love]
I
How do they err, who throw their LoveOn Fate or Fortune wholly;
Whom only Rants and Flights can move,
And Rapture join'd with Folly!
II
For how can Pleasure solid beWhere Thought is out of Season?
Do I love You, or You love Me,
My Dear, without a Reason?
III
Our Sense then rightly we'll employ,No Paradise expecting;
Yet envying none the trifling Joy,
That will not bear reflecting.
IV
For Wisdom's Pow'r (since after allEv'n Life is past the curing,)
Softens the worst that can befall,
And makes the best enduring.
Poems on Several Occasions | ||