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To His Worthy Friend, M. Arthur Bartly

by Robert Herrick, 1648

When after many lusters thou shalt be
Wrapt up in sear-cloth with thine ancestry;
When of thy ragg’d escutcheons shall be seen
So little left, as if they ne’er had been;
Thou shalt thy name have, and thy fame’s best trust,
Here with the generation of my Just.

Published in Hesperides
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