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A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.
Source: From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).0
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A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain. by : Abraham Cowley
