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To The Right Gracious Prince, Lodowick, Duke Of Richmond And Lennox.

By Robert Herrick

Topics: classic

Of all those three brave brothers fall'n i' th' war     (Not without glory), noble sir, you are,     Despite of all concussions, left the stem     To shoot forth generations like to them.     Which may be done, if, sir, you can beget     Men in their substance, not in counterfeit,     Such essences as those three brothers; known     Eternal by their own production.     Of whom, from fame's white trumpet, this I'll tell,     Worthy their everlasting chronicle:     Never since first Bellona us'd a shield,     Such three brave brothers fell in Mars his field.     These were those three Horatii Rome did boast,     Rome's were these three Horatii we have lost.     One C[oe]ur-de-Lion had that age long since;     This, three; which three, you make up four, brave prince.

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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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