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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

To Robin Red-breast

LAID out for dead, let thy last kindness be

With leaves and moss-work for to cover me;

And while the wood-nymphs my cold corpse inter,

Sing thou my dirge, sweet-warbling chorister!

For epitaph, in foliage, next write this:

Here, here the tomb of Robin Herrick is!