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ETERNITIE by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: O YEARES! AND AGE! FAREWELL
Last Line: DROWN'D IN ONE ENDLESSE DAY.
Subject(s): FUTURE LIFE; RETRIBUTION; ETERNITY; AFTER LIFE;
1. O Yeares! and Age! Farewell:
Behold I go,
Where I do know
Infinitie to dwell.

2. And these mine eyes shall see
All times, how they
Are lost i' th' Sea
Of vast Eternitie.

3. Where never Moone shall sway
The Starres; but she,
And Night, shall be
Drown'd in one endlesse Day.



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