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A SONNET OF PERILLA by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: THEN DID I LIVE WHEN I DID SEE
Last Line: ILE LIVE AS ONE REGENERATE.

Then did I live when I did see
Perilla smile on none but me.
But (ah!) by starres malignant crost,
The life I got I quickly lost:
But yet a way there doth remaine,
For me embalm'd to live againe;
And that's to love me; in which state
Ile live as one Regenerate.



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