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HIS ANSWER TO A FRIEND by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU ASKE ME WHAT I DOE, AND HOW I LIVE?
Last Line: OR'E WHICH YOU'L WALK, WHEN I AM LAID BENEATH.

You aske me what I doe, and how I live?
And (Noble friend) this answer I must give:
Drooping, I draw on to the vaults of death,
Or'e which you'l walk, when I am laid beneath.



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