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UPON A COMELY, AND CURIOUS MAIDE by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: IF MEN CAN SAY THAT BEAUTY DYES
Last Line: WILL TELL THEE PITIE THOU HAST NONE.
Subject(s): PITY;

If Men can say that beauty dyes;
Marbles will sweare that here it lyes.
If Reader then thou canst forbeare,
In publique loss to shed a Teare:
The Dew of griefe upon this stone
Will tell thee Pitie thou hast none.



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