TO HIS PATERNAL COUNTRY.
by Robert Herrick


O EARTH ! earth ! earth ! hear thou my voice, and be
Loving and gentle for to cover me :
Banish'd from thee I live, ne'er to return,
Unless thou giv'st my small remains an urn.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 21.


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