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First Line: Let the rich man fill his belly
Last Line: Before having loved at all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Death; Emotions; Dead, The


LET the rich man fill his belly;
Let him fast that has no bread;
And he may sleep in the moon light
That cannot find a bed.

If the sea were one great ink-pot
And the sky of paper made,
The evil that's in women
Could not all be said.

If the sea were one great ink-pot
And of paper all the sky,
It were not enough for telling,
How deeply men can lie.

To love with no return
Is a sad thing to befall;
But a sadder, to come to die
Before having loved at all.





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