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To Julia (6)

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Offer thy gift; but first the law commands
Thee, Julia, first, to sanctify thy hands:
Do that, my Julia, which the rites require,
Then boldly give thine incense to the fire.

Published in Hesperides
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