TO HIS KINSWOMAN, MRS. PENELOPE
WHEELER.

by Robert Herrick


NEXT is your lot, fair, to be number'd one,
Here, in my book's canonisation :
Late you come in ; but you a saint shall be,
In chief, in this poetic liturgy.




Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 236.



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