Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SONG, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: Burne, or drowne me, choose ye whether
Last Line: Kind at once to murder mee.


Burne, or drowne me, choose ye whether,
So I may but die together:
Thus to slay me by degrees,
Is the height of Cruelties.
What needs twenty stabs, when one
Strikes me dead as any stone?
O shew mercy then, and be
Kind at once to murder mee.





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