THE BROKEN CRYSTAL.
by Robert Herrick


TO fetch me wine my Lucia went,
Bearing a crystal continent :
But, making haste, it came to pass
She brake in two the purer glass,
Then smil'd, and sweetly chid her speed ;
So with a blush beshrew'd the deed.


Continent, holder.

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 234.


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