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Lovers to-day and for all time
Preserve the meaning of my rhyme:
Love is not kindly nor yet grim
But does to you as you to him.
--
"Advice To Lovers"

 

Robert Graves

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Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme,
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For Shakespeare he had said it all!

 

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With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots,
Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots;
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O' geography, to change their site;
Make former times shake hands with latter,
And that which was before come after.
But those that write in rhyme still make
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