Poem A Day

HIS MISTRESS TO HIM AT HIS FAREWELL

by Robert Herrick

You may vow I'll not forget

To pay the debt

Which to thy memory stands as due

As faith can seal it you.

--Take then tribute of my tears;

So long as I have fears

To prompt me, I shall ever

Languish and look, but thy return see never.

Oh then to lessen my despair,

Print thy lips into(the air,

So by this

Means, I may kiss thy kiss,

Whenas some kind

Wind

Shall hither waft it:--And, in lieu,

My lips shall send a thousand back to you.

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