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HIS REQUEST TO JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: JULIA, IF I CHANCE TO DIE
Last Line: THEN TO LIVE NOT PERFECTED.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;
Julia, if I chance to die
Ere I print my Poetry;
I most humbly thee desire
To commit it to the fire:
Better 'twere my Book were dead,
Then to live not perfected.



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