UPON JULIA'S RIBBON

Portrait of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick 1591–1674

As shews the air when with a rain-bow graced, So smiles that ribbon 'bout my Julia's waist; Or like----Nay, 'tis that Zonulet of love, Wherein all pleasures of the world are wove.

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