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CLEMENCY by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: FOR PUNISHMENT IN WARRE
Last Line: WHERE THE FAULT SPRINGS, THERE LET THE JUDGEMENT FALL.
Subject(s): WAR;
For punishment in warre, it will suffice,
If the chiefe Author of the faction dyes;
Let but few smart, but strike a feare through all:
Where the fault springs, there let the judgement fall.



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