The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To Robin Redbreast

by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

50. TO ROBIN REDBREAST.

Laid out for dead, let thy last kindness be
With leaves and moss-work for to cover me:

And while the wood-nymphs my cold corpse inter,
Sing thou my dirge, sweet-warbling chorister!
For epitaph, in foliage, next write this:
Here, here the tomb of Robin Herrick is.