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Upon a Comely And Curious Maid

by Robert Herrick, 1648

If men can say that beauty dies,
Marbles will swear that here it lies.
If, reader, then thou canst forbear
In public loss to shed a tear,
The dew of grief upon this stone
Will tell thee pity thou hast none.

Published in Hesperides
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