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ANOTHER ON ABELS BLOUD by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE BLOOD OF ABEL WAS A THING
Last Line: ESPECIALLY TO SWEARE BY IT.
Subject(s): ABEL;
The blood of Abel was a thing
Of such a rev'rend reckoning,
As that the old World thought it fit,
Especially to sweare by it.



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