AN HYMN TO JUNO.
by Robert Herrick


STATELY goddess, do thou please,
Who are chief at marriages,
But to dress the bridal bed
When my love and I shall wed ;
And a peacock proud shall be
Offered up by us to thee.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 178.
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