Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIBERTY, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: Those ills that mortall men endure
Last Line: Shakes the whole roofe, or ruines all.
Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty


Those ills that mortall men endure,
So long are capable of cure,
As they of freedome may be sure:
But that deni'd; a griefe, though small,
Shakes the whole Roofe, or ruines all.





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