<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507423" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Cruel Maid</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">--AND, cruel maid, because I see<br>You scornful of my love, and me,<br>I'll trouble you no more, but go<br>My way, where you shall never know<br>What is become of me; there I<br>Will find me out a path to die,<br>Or learn some way how to forget<br>You and your name for ever;--yet<br>Ere I go hence, know this from me,<br>What will in time your fortune be;<br>This to your coyness I will tell;<br>And having spoke it once, Farewell.<br>--The lily will not long endure,<br>Nor the snow continue pure;<br>The rose, the violet, one day<br>See both these lady-flowers decay;<br>And you must fade as well as they.<br>And it may chance that love may turn,<br>And, like to mine, make your heart burn<br>And weep to see't; yet this thing do,<br>That my last vow commends to you;<br>When you shall see that I am dead,<br>For pity let a tear be shed;<br>And, with your mantle o'er me cast,<br>Give my cold lips a kiss at last;<br>If twice you kiss, you need not fear<br>That I shall stir or live more here.<br>Next hollow out a tomb to cover<br>Me, me, the most despised lover;<br>And write thereon, THIS, READER, KNOW;<br>LOVE KILL'D THIS MAN. No more, but so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Herrick">Robert Herrick</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507423" data-title="The Cruel Maid de Robert Herrick" data-description="--AND, cruel maid, because I see You scornful of my love, and me, I'll trouble you no more, but go My way, where you shall never know What is become of me; there I Will find me out a path to die, Or learn some way how to forget You and your name f..."></div> </div> </div>

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