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HIS SAILING FROM JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: WHEN THAT DAY COMES, WHOSE EVENING SAYES I'M GONE
Last Line: IN THY REMEMBRANCE (JULIA.) SO FAREWELL.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;

When that day comes, whose evening sayes I'm gone
Unto that watrie Desolation:
Devoutly to thy Closet-gods then pray,
That my wing'd ship may meet no Remora.
Those Deities which circum-walk the Seas,
And look upon our dreadfull passages,
Will from all dangers, re-deliver me,
For one drink-offering, poured out by thee.
Mercie and Truth live with thee! and forbeare
(In my short absence) to unsluce a teare:
But yet for Loves-sake, let thy lips doe this,
Give my dead picture one engendring kisse:
Work that to life, and let me ever dwell
In thy remembrance (Julia.) So farewell.



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