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Upon Himself

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Mop-eyed I am, as some have said,
Because I’ve lived so long a maid:
But grant that I should wedded be,
Should I a jot the better see?
No, I should think that marriage might,
Rather than mend, put out the light.

Published in Hesperides
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