CLEMENCY.
by Robert Herrick


FOR punishment in war it will suffice
If the chief author of the faction dies ;
Let but few smart, but strike a fear through all ;
Where the fault springs there let the judgment fall.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 165.
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