75. 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!

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