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The Silken Snake

by Robert Herrick, 1648

For sport my Julia threw a lace
Of silk and silver at my face:
Watchet the silk was, and did make
A show as if’t had been a snake:
The suddenness did me afright,
But though it scar’d, it did not bite.

Published in Hesperides
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