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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 77. The Fart of Every Heart
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The Fart of Every Heart
If, when Don Cupid’s Dart
Doth wound a Heart.
We hide our Grief
And shun Relief;
The Smart increaseth on that Score;
For Wounds unsearched but rankle more.
Then if we whine, look pale,
And tell our Tale,
Men are in Pain
For us again;
So neither speaking doth become
The Lovers State, nor being dumb.
When this I do descry,
Then thus think I,
Love is the Fart
Of every Heart:
It pains a Man when ‘tis kept close,
And others does offend, when ‘tis let loose.
—John Suckling, [i]
1640
[i] “The Fart of Every Heart” John Suckling The Works of Sir John Suckling (London 1709), ps. 3-4
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