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ON HIMSELFE (3) by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: ASKE ME, WHY I DO NOT SING
Last Line: AND MY TONGUE AT ONE TIME MUTE.
Subject(s): SINGING & SINGERS; SONGS;
Aske me, why I do not sing
To the tension of the string,
As I did, not long ago,
When my numbers full did flow?
Griefe (ay me!) hath struck my Lute,
And my tongue at one time mute.



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