A HYMN TO SIR CLIPSEBY CREW.
by Robert Herrick


      'TWAS not love's dart,
      Or any blow,
      Or want, or foe,
      Did wound my heart
With an eternal smart ;

      But only you,
      My sometimes known
      Companion,
      My dearest Crew,
That me unkindly slew.

      May your fault die,
      And have no name
      In books of fame ;
      Or let it lie
Forgotten now, as I.

      We parted are
      And now no more,
      As heretofore,
      By jocund Lar
Shall be familiar.

      But though we sever,
      My Crew shall see
      That I will be
      Here faithless never,
But love my Clipseby ever.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 201-202.


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