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To M. Henry Lawes, the Excellent Composer of His Lyrics

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Touch but thy lyre, my Harry, and I hear
From thee some raptures of the rare Gotiere;
Then if thy voice commingle with the string,
I hear in thee rare Laniere to sing;
Or curious Wilson: tell me, canst thou be
Less than Apollo, that usurp’st such three?
Three, unto whom the whole world give applause;
Yet their three praises praise but one; that’s Lawes.

Published in Hesperides
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