UPON LOVE. (VI)
by Robert Herrick


       IN a dream, Love bade me go
       To the galleys there to row ;
       In the vision I ask'd why ?
       Love as briefly did reply,
'Twas better there to toil, than prove
The turmoils they endure that love.
       I awoke, and then I knew
       What Love said was too-too true ;
       Henceforth therefore I will be,
       As from love, from trouble free.
None pities him that's in the snare,
And warn'd before would not beware.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 20.


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