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TO HIS LEARNED FRIEND M. JO. HARMAR, PHYSITIAN by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN FIRST I FIND THOSE NUMBERS THOU DO'ST WRITE
Last Line: IF JOVE WO'D SPEAKE, HE WO'D ACCEPT OF THINE.

When first I find those Numbers thou do'st write;
To be most soft, terce, sweet, and perpolite:
Next, when I see Thee towring in the skie,
In an expansion no less large, then high;
Then, in that compass, sayling here and there,
And with Circumgyration every where;
Following with love and active heate thy game,
And then at last to truss the Epigram;
I must confess, distinction none I see
Between Domitians Martiall then, and Thee.
But this I know, should Jupiter agen
Descend from heaven, to re-converse with men;
The Romane Language full, and superfine,
If Jove wo'd speake, he wo'd accept of thine.



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