Robert Herrick. To His Honoured Kinsman, Sir Richard Stone.

TO HIS HONOURED KINSMAN, SIR
RICHARD STONE.
by Robert Herrick

TO this white temple of my heroes here,
Beset with stately figures everywhere
Of such rare saintships, who did here consume
Their lives in sweets, and left in death perfume,
Come, thou brave man ! And bring with thee a stone
Unto thine own edification.
High are these statues here, besides no less
Strong than the heavens for everlastingness :
Where build aloft ; and, being fix'd by these,
Set up thine own eternal images.

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 232.

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