Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HIS CONFESSION, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: Look how our foule dayes do exceed our faire
Last Line: To do ten bad, for one good action.


Look how our foule Dayes do exceed our faire;
And as our bad, more then our good Works are:
Ev'n so those Lines, pen'd by my wanton Wit,
Treble the number of these good I've writ.
Things precious are least num'rous: Men are prone
To do ten Bad, for one Good Action.





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