“I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires and more slow.”

—  Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress

To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652)

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