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The Watch

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Man is a watch, wound up at first, but never
Wound up again: once down, he’s down for ever.
The watch once down, all motions then do cease;
And man’s pulse stop’d, all passions sleep in peace.

Published in Hesperides
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