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The Maiden-blush

by Robert Herrick, 1648

So look the mornings when the sun
Paints them with fresh vermilion:
So cherries blush, and Kathern pears,
And apricots in youthful years:
So corals look more lovely red,
And rubies lately polished:
So purest diaper doth shine,
Stain’d by the beams of claret wine:
As Julia looks when she doth dress
Her either cheek with bashfulness.

Published in Hesperides
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