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TO APOLLO; A SHORT HYMNE by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: PHOEBUS! WHEN THAT I A VERSE
Last Line: SWANS DEVOTED UNTO THEE.
Subject(s): APOLLO; MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL;
Phoebus! when that I a Verse,
Or some numbers more rehearse;
Tune my words, that they may fall,
Each way smoothly Musicall:
For which favour, there shall be
Swans devoted unto thee.



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