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J. C. Squire, ed.  A Book of Women’s Verse.  1921.
 
Love and Poetry
By Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1624–1674)
 
O LOVE, how thou art tired out with rhyme!
Thou art a tree whereon all poets clime;
And from thy branches every one takes some
Of thy sweet fruit, which Fancy feeds upon.
But now thy tree is left so bare and poor,        5
That they can scarcely gather one plumb more.
 
 
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