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Upon a Young Mother of Many Children

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Let all chaste matrons, when they chance to see
My num’rous issue, praise and pity me:
Praise me for having such a fruitful womb,
Pity me, too, who found so soon a tomb.

Published in Hesperides
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