UPON A MAID.
by Robert Herrick


HENCE a blessed soul is fled,
Leaving here the body dead ;
Which since here they can't combine,
For the saint we'll keep the shrine.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 9.


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