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Upon the Troublesome Times

by Robert Herrick, 1648

O times most bad,
  Without the scope
    Of hope
Of better to be had!

  Where shall I go,
  Or whither run
    To shun
This public overthrow?

  No places are,
  This I am sure,
    Secure
In this our wasting war.

  Some storms we’ve past,
  Yet we must all
    Down fall,
And perish at the last.

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