I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I

Did, till we loved, were we not weaned till then?

But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?

Or snorted we in the seven sleepers den?

 

by John Donne 1572–1631, English poet and divine, in Songs and Sonnets  ‘The Good-Morrow’

 

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