“Bid me despair, and I'll despair,
Under that cypress tree;
Or bid me die, and I will dare
E'en Death, to die for thee.”

—  Robert Herrick , book Hesperides

" To Anthea, st. 5 http://www.bartleby.com/106/96.html".
Hesperides (1648)

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