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HIS CAVALIER by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: GIVE ME THAT MAN, THAT DARES BESTRIDE
Last Line: I! AND A WORLD OF PIKES PASSE THROUGH.
Subject(s): FREEDOM; LIBERTY;

Give me that man, that dares bestride
The active Sea-horse, & with pride,
Through that huge field of waters ride:
Who, with his looks too, can appease
The ruffling winds and raging Seas,
In mid'st of all their outrages.
This, this a virtuous man can doe,
Saile against Rocks, and split them too;
I! and a world of Pikes passe through.



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