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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

To Silvia

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

I AM holy while I stand

Circum-crost by thy pure hand;

But when that is gone, again

I, as others, am profane.