UPON THE TROUBLESOME TIMES.
by Robert Herrick


      O TIMES most bad,
      Without the scope
            Of hope
Of better to be had !

      Where shall I go,
      Or whither run
            To shun
This public overthrow ?

      No places are,
      This I am sure,
            Secure
In this our wasting war.

      Some storms we've past,
      Yet we must all
            Down fall,
And perish at the last.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 10.


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