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Upon Julia Washing Herself In the River

by Robert Herrick, 1648

How fierce was I, when I did see
My Julia wash herself in thee!
So lilies thorough crystal look:
So purest pebbles in the brook:
As in the river Julia did,
Half with a lawn of water hid.
Into thy streams myself I threw,
And struggling there, I kiss’d thee too;
And more had done, it is confess’d,
Had not thy waves forbade the rest.

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