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To His Worthy Kinsman, Mr. Stephen Soame

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Nor is my number full till I inscribe
Thee, sprightly Soame, one of my righteous tribe;
A tribe of one lip, leaven, and of one
Civil behaviour, and religion;
A stock of saints, where ev’ry one doth wear
A stole of white, and canonised here;
Among which holies be thou ever known,
Brave kinsman, mark’d out with the whiter stone
Which seals thy glory, since I do prefer
Thee here in my eternal calender.

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