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The Sadness of Things For Sappho’s Sickness

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Lilies will languish; violets look ill;
Sickly the primrose; pale the daffodil;
That gallant tulip will hang down his head,
Like to a virgin newly ravished;
Pansies will weep, and marigolds will wither,
And keep a fast and funeral together;
  Sappho droop, daisies will open never,
But bid good-night, and close their lids for ever.

Published in Hesperides
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