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To the Most Accomplished Gentleman, M. Michael Oulsworth

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Nor think that thou in this my book art worst,
Because not plac’d here with the midst, or first.
Since fame that sides with these, or goes before
Those, that must live with thee for evermore;
That fame, and fame’s rear’d pillar, thou shalt see
In the next sheet, brave man, to follow thee.
Fix on that column then, and never fall,
Held up by Fame’s eternal pedestal.

Published in Hesperides
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