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Upon His Grey Hairs

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Fly me not, though I be grey:
Lady, this I know you’ll say;
Better look the roses red
When with white commingled.
Black your hairs are, mine are white;
This begets the more delight,
When things meet most opposite:
As in pictures we descry
Venus standing Vulcan by.

Published in Hesperides
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