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First Line: Julia, if I chance to die
Last Line: Then to live not perfected.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


Julia, if I chance to die
Ere I print my Poetry;
I most humbly thee desire
To commit it to the fire:
Better 'twere my Book were dead,
Then to live not perfected.





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