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  • No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, alas, they know or heed How far these beauties hers exceed! Fair trees! where s'e'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found.

    Andrew Marvell (1997). “"To His Coy Mistress" and Other Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation