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To One Married to an Old Man

by Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller

Since thou wouldst needs,
Bewitched with some ill charms,
Be buried in those monumental arms,
All we can wish is, may that earth lie light
Upon thy tender limbs, and so goodnight.




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