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TO THE YEW AND CYPRESS TO GRACE HIS FUNERAL by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: BOTH YOU TWO HAVE / RELATION TO THE GRAVE
Last Line: THANKFULL TO YOU, OR FRIENDS, FOR ME.
Subject(s): CYPRESS TREES; FUNERALS; YEW TREES; BURIALS;
1. Both you two have
Relation to the grave:
And where
The Fun'rall-Trump sounds, you are there.

2. I shall be made
Ere long a fleeting shade:
Pray come,
And doe some honour to my Tomb.

3. Do not deny
My last request; for I
Will be
Thankfull to you, or friends, for me.



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