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THE CHANGES TO CORINNA by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: BE NOT PROUD, BUT NOW ENCLINE
Last Line: AS WELL AS I.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

Be not proud, but now encline
Your soft eare to Discipline.
You have changes in your life,
Sometimes peace, and sometimes strife:
You have ebbes of face and flowes,
As your health or comes, or goes;
You have hopes, and doubts, and feares
Numberlesse, as are your haires.
You have Pulses that doe beat
High, and passions lesse of heat.
You are young, but must be old,
And, to these, ye must be told,
Time, ere long, will come and plow
Loathed Furrowes in your brow:
And the dimnesse of your eye
Will no other thing imply,
But you must die
As well as I.



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