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Upon Julia’s Fall

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Julia was careless, and withal
She rather took than got a fall,
The wanton ambler chanc’d to see
Part of her legs’ sincerity:
And ravish’d thus, it came to pass,
The nag (like to the prophet’s ass)
Began to speak, and would have been
A-telling what rare sights he’d seen:
And had told all; but did refrain
Because his tongue was tied again.

Published in Hesperides
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