Upon Julia's Hair Filled With Dew

Portrait of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick 1591–1674

Dew sat on Julia's hair, And spangled too, Like leaves that laden are With trembling dew.

Or glittered to my sight, As when the beams Have their reflected light Danced by the streams.

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