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The Hesperides & Noble Numbers (1898)
by Robert Herrick, edited by Alfred Pollard
Hesperides
The Departure of the Good Demon
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)2763189The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
The Departure of the Good Demon
1898Alfred Pollard

334. THE DEPARTURE OF THE GOOD DEMON.

What can I do in poetry
Now the good spirit's gone from me?
Why, nothing now but lonely sit
And over-read what I have writ.