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The New-year’s Gift

by Robert Herrick, 1647

Let others look for pearl and gold,
Tissues, or tabbies manifold:
One only lock of that sweet hay
Whereon the blessed baby lay,
Or one poor swaddling-clout, shall be
The richest New–Year’s gift to me.

Published in Noble Numbers
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