TO VULCAN.
by Robert Herrick


THY sooty godhead I desire
Still to be ready with thy fire ;
That should my book despised be,
Acceptance it might find of thee.
Velazquez. The Forge of Vulcan, 1630.

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 14.


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