HIS ANSWER TO A QUESTION.
by Robert Herrick


SOME would know
     Why I so
Long still do tarry,
     And ask why
     Here that I
Live and not marry.
     Thus I those
     Do oppose :
What man would be here
     Slave to thrall,
     If at all
He could live free here ?


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 12.
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