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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)119032The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
His Answer to a Question
1898Alfred Pollard

26. HIS ANSWER TO A QUESTION.

Some would know
Why I so
Long still do tarry,
And ask why
Here that I
Live and not marry.
Thus I those
Do oppose:
What man would be here
Slave to thrall,
If at all
He could live free here?