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To His Kinswoman, Mistress Susanna Herrick

by Robert Herrick, 1648

When I consider, dearest, thou dost stay
But here a-while, to languish and decay,
Like to these garden-glories, which here be
The flowery-sweet resemblances of thee;
With grief of heart, methinks, I thus do cry:
Would thou hadst ne’er been born, or might’st not die.

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