TO HIS HOUSEHOLD GODS.
by Robert Herrick


RISE, household gods, and let us go ;
But whither I myself not know.
First, let us dwell on rudest seas ;
Next, with severest savages ;
Last let us make our best abode
Where human foot as yet ne'er trod :
Search worlds of ice, and rather there
Dwell than in loathed Devonshire.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 138.
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