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Upon Julia’s Sweat

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Would ye oil of blossoms get?
Take it from my Julia’s sweat:
Oil of lilies and of spike?
From her moisture take the like.
Let her breathe, or let her blow,
All rich spices thence will flow.

Published in Hesperides
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