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THE AMBER BEAD by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: I SAW A FLY [FLIE] WITHIN A BEAD [BEADE]
Last Line: MORE RICH THEN CLEOPATRA'S TOMBE.
I saw a Flie within a Beade
Of Amber cleanly buried:
The Urne was little, but the room
More rich then Cleopatra's Tombe.



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