Robert Herrick


THE ROCK OF RUBIES, AND
THE QUARRY OF PEARLS.

SOME ask'd me where the rubies grew,
    And nothing I did say :
But with my finger pointed to
    The lips of Julia.
Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where ;
    Then spoke I to my girl,
To part her lips, and show'd them there
    The quarelets of Pearl.


Quarelets, little squares.
 Neroccio. Portrait of a Lady, 1490.
Neroccio. Portrait of a Lady, 1490.
Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 28.
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