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Upon One Lily, Who Married With a Maid Called Rose

by Robert Herrick, 1648

What times of sweetness this fair day foreshows,
Whenas the Lily marries with the Rose!
What next is look’d for? but we all should see
To spring from thee a sweet posterity.

Published in Hesperides
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