ON HIMSELF. (XI)
by Robert Herrick


WEEP for the dead, for they have lost this light :
And weep for me, lost in an endless night.
Or mourn, or make a marble verse for me,
Who writ for many.   Benedicite.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 121.


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