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Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.
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Few Fortunate.
Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry
On Fortune.
Upon A Maid.
Sin Seen.
Sin.
Sin no existence; nature none it hath,Or good at all, as learned Aquinas saith.
Sin once reached up to God's eternal sphere,And was committed, not remitted there.
Sin leads the way, but as it goes, it feelsThe following plague still treading on his heels.
Sin never slew a soul unless there wentAlong with it some tempting blandishment.
Another. (Sin.)
Sin is an act so free, that if we shallSay 'tis not free, 'tis then no sin at all.
There is no evil that we do commit,But hath th' extraction of some good from it:As when we sin, God, the great Chemist, thenceDraws out th' elixir of true penitence.