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HIS MISTRIS TO HIM AT HIS FARWELL by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU MAY VOW ILE NOT FORGETT
Last Line: MY LIPPS SHALL SEND A 1000 BACK TO YOU.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;

You may vow Ile not forgett
To pay the debt,
Which to thy Memorie stands as due
As faith can seale It you;
Take then tribute of my teares,
So long as I haue feares
To prompt mee, I shall euer
Languish and looke but thy returne see neuer.
Oh then to lessen my dispaire
Print thy lips into the ayre,
So by this
Meanes I may kisse thy kisse,
When as some kinde
Winde
Shall hither waft it, and in leiu
My lipps shall send a 1000 back to you.



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