Tixall Poetry/A Song for Love

by unknown author

A Song for Love.

 

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Would you know earth's highest pleasure?
 Would you rivall gods above?
Drink rich wines, but drink with measure,
 But feare no excess in love.

Or if wine you quite give over,
 You will nothing lose thereby,
All is rapture to a lover,
 So in love he live or dye.