Discontents In Devon

Robert Herrick

More discontents I never had
    Since I was born, than here;
Where I have been, and still am, sad,
    In this dull Devonshire.
Yet justly too I must confess,
    I ne'er invented such
Ennobled numbers for the press,
    Than where I loath'd so much.

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