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Upon His Sister-in-law, Mistress Elizabeth Herrick

by Robert Herrick, 1648

First, for effusions due unto the dead,
My solemn vows have here accomplished:
Next, how I love thee, that my grief must tell,
Wherein thou liv’st for ever. Dear, farewell.

Published in Hesperides
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