Religion
The broken Christall.
From Hesperides (1648)
Religion
TO Fetch me Wine my Lucia went,
Bearing a Christall continent:
But making haste, it came to passe,
She brake in two the purer Glasse,
Then smil'd, and sweetly chid her speed;
So with a blush, beshrew'd the deed.
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Herrick, Robert. “The broken Christall.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/505/.
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Herrick, Robert. “The broken Christall.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/505/.
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