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TO SAPPHO (1) by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: LET US NOW TAKE TIME, AND PLAY
Last Line: NO RETURN FROM THENCE WE HAVE.
Subject(s): CARPE DIEM;

Let us now take time, and play,
Love, and live here while we may;
Drink rich wine; and make good cheere,
While we have our being here:
For, once dead, and laid i'th grave,
No return from thence we have.



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