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TO A BED OF TULIPS by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: BRIGHT TULIPS, WE DO KNOW
Last Line: AS TIME HAD NEVER KNOWN YE.
Subject(s): TULIPS;
1. Bright Tulips, we do know,
You had your comming hither;
And Fading-time do's show,
That Ye must quickly wither.

2. Your Sister-hoods may stay,
And smile here for your houre;
But dye ye must away:
Even as the meanest Flower.

3. Come Virgins then, and see
Your frailties; and bemone ye;
For lost like these, 'twill be,
As Time had never known ye.



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