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Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.

Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
Poet
Writer
London
England
Love
Protestant
Protestants
Thee
Loving
Live
Heart

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Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.
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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
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Then be not coy, but use your time And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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The May-pole is up, Now give me the cup I'll drink to the garlands around it But first unto those Whose hands did compose The glory of flowers that crown'd it.
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Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.
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