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 As ships in ports desired are drowned, As fruit once ripe, then falls to ground, As flies that seek for flames, are brought To cinders by the flames they sought: So fond DESIRE when it attains The life expires, the woe remains.

And yet some poets fain would prove AFFECTION to be perfect love; And that DESIRE is of that kind No less a passion of the Mind: As if wild beasts and men did seek To like, to love, to choose alike.

W.R.