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ON HIMSELFE (8) by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: IF THAT MY FATE HAS NOW FULFILL'D MY YEERE
Last Line: BY THE DEAD BONES OF OUR DEARE ANCESTRIE.
If that my Fate has now fulfill'd my yeere,
And so soone stopt my longer living here;
What was't (ye Gods!) a dying man to save,
But while he met with his Paternall grave;
Though while we living 'bout the world do roame,
We love to rest in peacefull Urnes at home,
Where we may snug, and close together lye
By the dead bones of our deare Ancestrie.



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