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BARLEY-BREAK; OR, LAST IN HELL

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

We two are last in hell; what may we fear
To be tormented or kept pris'ners here I
Alas! if kissing be of plagues the worst,
We'll wish in hell we had been last and first.




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