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The Deluge

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Drowning, drowning, I espy
Coming from my Julia’s eye:
’Tis some solace in our smart,
To have friends to bear a part:
I have none; but must be sure
Th’ inundation to endure.
Shall not times hereafter tell
This for no mean miracle?
When the waters by their fall
Threaten’d ruin unto all,
Yet the deluge here was known
Of a world to drown but one.

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