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To Sappho

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Let us now take time and play,
Love, and live here while we may;
Drink rich wine, and make good cheer,
While we have our being here;
For once dead and laid i’ th’ grave,
No return from thence we have.

Published in Hesperides
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