The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/Upon Himself (Mop-eyed I am, as some have said)

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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)2654265The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
Upon Himself
1898Alfred Pollard

235. UPON HIMSELF.

Mop-eyed I am, as some have said,
Because I've lived so long a maid:
But grant that I should wedded be,

Should I a jot the better see?
No, I should think that marriage might,
Rather than mend, put out the light.

Mop-eyed, shortsighted.