The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/Evensong

by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

For works with similar titles, see Evensong.

321. EVENSONG.

Begin with Jove; then is the work half done,
And runs most smoothly when 'tis well begun.
Jove's is the first and last: the morn's his due,
The midst is thine; but Jove's the evening too;
As sure a matins does to him belong,
So sure he lays claim to the evensong.