TO HIS SAVIOUR. THE NEW YEAR'S GIFT.
by Robert Herrick


THAT little pretty bleeding part
      Of foreskin send to me :
And I'll return a bleeding heart,
      For New-Year's gift to Thee.

Rich is the gem that Thou did'st send,
      Mine's faulty too and small ;
But yet this gift Thou wilt commend
      Because I send Thee all.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 219.


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