“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.”

—  Robert Herrick , book Hesperides

"To Anthea: Ah, My Anthea!"
Hesperides (1648)

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