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HIS PROTESTATION TO PERILLA by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: NOONE-DAY AND MIDNIGHT SHALL AT ONCE BE SEENE
Last Line: FALSE TO MY VOW, OR FALL AWAY FROM THEE.

Noone-day and Midnight shall at once be seene:
Trees, at one time, shall be both sere and greene:
Fire and water shall together lye
In one-self-sweet-conspiring sympathie:
Summer and Winter shall at one time show
Ripe eares of corne, and up to th'eares in snow:
Seas shall be sandlesse; Fields devoid of grasse;
Shapelesse the world (as when all Chaos was)
Before, my deare Perilla, I will be
False to my vow, or fall away from thee.



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