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The Broken Crystal

by Robert Herrick, 1648

To fetch me wine my Lucia went,
Bearing a crystal continent:
But, making haste, it came to pass
She brake in two the purer glass,
Then smil’d, and sweetly chid her speed;
So with a blush beshrew’d the deed.

Published in Hesperides
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