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Upon His Verses

by Robert Herrick, 1648

What offspring other men have got,
The how, where, when, I question not.
These are the children I have left,
Adopted some, none got by theft;
But all are touch’d, like lawful plate,
And no verse illegitimate.

Published in Hesperides
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