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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DITTY, by EDWARD HERBERT Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I then live to draw that breath
Last Line: Even death cannot end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
First Line: Can I then live to draw that breath
Last Line: Even death cannot end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
CAN I then live to draw that breath
Which must bid farewell to thee?
Yet how should death not seize on me?
Since absence from the life I hold so dear must needs be death,
While I do feel in parting
Such a living dying,
As in this my most fatal hour
Grief such a life doth lend,
As, quick'ned by his power,
Even death cannot end.
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