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Poetry Perpetuates the Poet

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Here I myself might likewise die,
And utterly forgotten lie,
But that eternal poetry
Repullulation gives me here
Unto the thirtieth thousand year,
When all now dead shall reappear.

Published in Hesperides
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