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Robert Herrick - His Return To LondonRobert Herrick - His Return To London
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From the dull confines of the drooping west To see the day spring from the pregnant east, Ravish`d in spirit, I come, nay more, I fly To thee, blest place of my nativity! Thus, thus with hallow`d foot I touch the ground, With thousand blessings by thy fortune crown`d. O fruitful genius! that bestowest here An everlasting plenty, year by year. O place! O people! Manners! fram`d to please All nations, customs, kindreds, languages! I am a free-born Roman; suffer then That I amongst you live a citizen. London my home is, though by hard fate sent Into a long and irksome banishment; Yet since call`d back, henceforward let me be, O native country, repossess`d by thee! For, rather than I`ll to the west return, I`ll beg of thee first here to have mine urn. Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall; Give thou my sacred relics burial.
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