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TO HIS WORTHY KINSMAN, MR. STEPHEN SOAME by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: NOR IS MY NUMBER FULL, TILL I INSCRIBE
Last Line: THEE HERE IN MY ETERNALL CALENDER.

Nor is my Number full, till I inscribe
Thee sprightly Soame, one of my righteous Tribe:
A Tribe of one Lip; Leven, and of One
Civil Behaviour, and Religion.
A Stock of Saints; where ev'ry one doth weare
Among which Holies, be Thou ever known,
Brave Kinsman, markt out with the whiter stone:
Which seals Thy Glorie; since I doe prefer
Thee here in my eternall Calender.



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