A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick






204. THE CHANGES: TO CORINNA

     Be not proud, but now incline
     Your soft ear to discipline;
     You have changes in your life,
     Sometimes peace, and sometimes strife;
     You have ebbs of face and flows,
     As your health or comes or goes;
     You have hopes, and doubts, and fears,
     Numberless as are your hairs;
     You have pulses that do beat
     High, and passions less of heat;
     You are young, but must be old:—
     And, to these, ye must be told,
     Time, ere long, will come and plow
     Loathed furrows in your brow:
     And the dimness of your eye
     Will no other thing imply,
     But you must die
     As well as I.

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