THE COMING OF GOOD LUCK

Portrait of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick 1591–1674

So Good-Luck came, and on my roof did light, Like noiseless snow, or as the dew of night; Not all at once, but gently,--as the trees Are by the sun-beams, tickled by degrees.

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