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Cock-crow

by Robert Herrick, 1647

Bellman of night, if I about shall go
For to deny my Master, do thou crow.
Thou stop’dst St. Peter in the midst of sin;
Stay me, by crowing, ere I do begin:
Better it is, premonish’d for to shun
A sin, than fall to weeping when ’tis done.

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