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UPON THE TROUBLESOME TIMES by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: O! TIMES MOST BAD
Last Line: AND PERISH AT THE LAST.
Subject(s): DESPAIR;
1. O! Times most bad,
Without the scope
Of hope
Of better to be had!

2. Where shall I goe,
Or whither run
To shun
This publique overthrow?

3. No places are
(This I am sure)
Secure
In this our wasting Warre.

4. Some storms w'ave past;
Yet we must all
Down fall,
And perish at the last.



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