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Red Roses

Platonick Love from Poems by John Hall

chosen by Steph

Come (Dearest Julia) though and I

Will knit us in so strickt a tie,

As shall with greater pow’r engage

Then feeble charms of marriage;

We will be friends, out thoughts shall go,

Without impeachment, too and fro,

The fame desires shall elevate

Our mingled souls, the self-fame hate

Shall cause Aversion, we will beare

One Sympathising hope and fear,

And for to move more close, wee’l frame

Our triumphs and our teares the same;

Yet will we ne’re so grossely dare

As our ignobler selves small share,

Let men desire, like those above

Unmatter’d forms, wee’l onely love;

And teach the ruler world to shame

When heat encreaseth to a flame:

Love’s like a landskap which doth stand

Smooth at a distance, rough at hand;

Or like a fire from which afarre

Doth gently warm, consumes when near.

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