Upon Love

by Robert Herrick

I played with Love, as with the fire
    The wanton Satyr did;
Nor did I know, or could descry
    What under there was hid.

That Satyr he but burnt his lips;
    But mine's the greater smart,
For kissing Love's dissembling chips
    The fire scorch'd my heart.


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