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John Suckling

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Oh for some honest lover's ghost,
Some kind unbodied post
Sent from the shades below!
I strangely long to know
Whether the nobler chaplets wear
Those that their mistress' scorn did bear,
Or those that were used kindly.
--
Oh! For some honest lover's ghost.

 
John Suckling

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