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To Anthea Lying In Bed

by Robert Herrick, 1648

So looks Anthea, when in bed she lies
O’ercome or half betray’d by tiffanies,
Like to a twilight, or that simpering dawn
That roses show when misted o’er with lawn.
Twilight is yet, till that her lawns give way;
Which done, that dawn turns then to perfect day.

Published in Hesperides
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