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The Curse. a Song

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Go, perjured man; and if thou e’er return
To see the small remainders in mine urn,
When thou shalt laugh at my religious dust,
And ask: where’s now the colour, form and trust
Of woman’s beauty? and with hand more rude
Rifle the flowers which the virgins strewed:
Know I have prayed to Fury that some wind
May blow my ashes up, and strike thee blind.

Published in Hesperides
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