Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PROOF TO NO PURPOSE, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: You see this gentle streame, that glides
Last Line: By ruffling winds, about the world.


You see this gentle streame, that glides,
Shov'd on, by quick succeeding Tides:
Trie if this sober streame you can
Follow to th' wilder Ocean:
And see, if there it keeps unspent
In that congesting element.
Next, from that world of waters, then
By poares and cavernes back agen
Induc't that inadultrate same
Streame to the Spring from whence it came.
This with a wonder when ye do,
As easie, and els easier too:
Then may ye recollect the graines
Of my particular Remaines;
After a thousand Lusters hurld,
By ruffling winds, about the world.





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