UPON ONE LILY, WHO MARRIED WITH A MAID
CALLED ROSE.
by Robert Herrick


WHAT times of sweetness this fair day foreshows,
When the lily marries with the rose !
What next is look'd for ? but we all should see
To spring from thee a sweet posterity.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 52.
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