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To His Honoured Friend, Sir Thomas Heale

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Stand by the magic of my powerful rhymes
‘Gainst all the indignation of the times.
Age shall not wrong thee; or one jot abate
Of thy both great and everlasting fate.
While others perish, here’s thy life decreed,
Because begot of my immortal seed.

Published in Hesperides
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