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The Willow Garland

by Robert Herrick, 1648

A willow garland thou did’st send
  Perfum’d, last day, to me,
Which did but only this portend —
  I was forsook by thee.

Since so it is, I’ll tell thee what,
  To-morrow thou shalt see
Me wear the willow; after that,
  To die upon the tree.

As beasts unto the altars go
  With garlands dress’d, so I
Will, with my willow-wreath, also
  Come forth and sweetly die.

Published in Hesperides
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