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TO THE KING AND QUEEN, UPON THEIR UNHAPPY DISTANCES by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: WOE, WOE TO THEM, WHO (BY A BALL OF STRIFE)
Last Line: THE WORDS FOUND TRUE, C. M. REMEMBER ME.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;

Woe, woe to them, who (by a ball of strife)
Doe, and have parted here a Man and Wife:
CHARLS the best Husband, while MARIA strives
To be, and is, the very best of Wives:
Like Streams, you are divorc'd; but 't will come, when
These eyes of mine shall see you mix agen.
Thus speaks the Oke, here; C. and M. shall meet,
Treading on Amber, with their silver-feet:
Nor wil't be long, ere this accomplish'd be;
The words found true, C. M. remember me.



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