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To the Nightingale And Robin Redbreast

by Robert Herrick, 1648

When I departed am, ring thou my knell,
Thou pitiful and pretty Philomel:
And when I’m laid out for a corse, then be
Thou sexton, redbreast, for to cover me.

Published in Hesperides
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