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UPON JULIA'S RIBBON

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

As shews the air when with a rain-bow graced,
So smiles that ribbon 'bout my Julia's waist;
Or like----Nay, 'tis that Zonulet of love,
Wherein all pleasures of the world are wove.




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