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To The Reverend Shade Of His Religious Father.

By Robert Herrick

Topics: classic

That for seven lusters I did never come     To do the rites to thy religious tomb;     That neither hair was cut, or true tears shed     By me, o'er thee, as justments to the dead,     Forgive, forgive me; since I did not know     Whether thy bones had here their rest or no,     But now 'tis known, behold! behold, I bring     Unto thy ghost th' effused offering:     And look what smallage, night-shade, cypress, yew,     Unto the shades have been, or now are due,     Here I devote; and something more than so;     I come to pay a debt of birth I owe.     Thou gav'st me life, but mortal; for that one     Favour I'll make full satisfaction;     For my life mortal rise from out thy hearse.     And take a life immortal from my verse.

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Robert Herrick

About Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was an English Cavalier poet whose "Hesperides" (1648) contains over 1,200 poems. His carpe diem verse "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" ("Gather ye rosebuds while ye may") and lyric poems celebrate love, beauty, and the passing of time.

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