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ULTIMUS HEROUM, OR, TO ... HENRY, MAQUESSE OF DORCHESTER by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: AND AS TIME PAST WHEN CATO THE SEVERE
Last Line: IF BUT LOOKT ON; STRUCK DEAD, IF SCAN'D BY THEE.
And as time past when Cato the Severe
Entred the circumspacious Theater;
In reverence of his person, every one
Stood as he had been turn'd from flesh to stone:
E'ne so my numbers will astonisht be
If but lookt on; struck dead, if scan'd by Thee.



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