Love
An Almanack
Love
THis strange Ecclipse one saies
Strange Wonders doth foretell;
But you whose Wives excell,
And love to count their Praise,
Shut all your gates, your Hedges plant with Thornes,
The Sun did threat the World this time with Hornes.
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MLA
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “An Almanack.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/102/.
Chicago
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “An Almanack.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/102/.
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