TO THE EARL OF WESTMORELAND.
by Robert Herrick


WHEN my date's done, and my grey age must die,
Nurse up, great Lord, this my posterity :
Weak though it be, long may it grow and stand,
Shored up by you, brave Earl of Westmoreland.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 47.
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