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

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

To the Lark

GOOD speed, for I this day

Betimes my matins say,

Because I do

Begin to woo,

Sweet singing Lark,

Be thou the clerk,

And know thy when

To say Amen.

And if I prove

Blest in my love,

Then thou shalt be

High Priest to me,

At my return

To incense burn,

And so to solemnise

Love’s and my sacrifice.