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Upon the Loss of His Finger

by Robert Herrick, 1648

One of the five straight branches of my hand
Is lop’d already, and the rest but stand
Expecting when to fall, which soon will be;
First dies the leaf, the bough next, next the tree.

Published in Hesperides
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