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To Anthea (7)

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Sick is Anthea, sickly is the spring,
The primrose sick, and sickly everything;
The while my dear Anthea does but droop,
The tulips, lilies, daffodils do stoop:
But when again she’s got her healthful hour,
Each bending then will rise a proper flower.

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