Robert Herrick


TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND, MR. THOMAS
SHAPCOTT, LAWYER.

I'VE paid thee what I promis'd ; that's not all ;
Besides I give thee here a verse that shall
(Whence hence thy circummortal part is gone),
Arch-like, hold up thy name's inscription.
Brave men can't die, whose candid actions are
Writ in the poet's endless calendar :
Whose vellum and whose volume is the sky,
And the pure stars the praising poetry.
Farewell.



Circummortal, more than mortal.
Candid, fair.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 209.


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