The Maypole

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Title:     The Maypole
Author: (Poet) Robert Herrick [More Titles by Herrick]

The May-pole is up,
Now give me the cup;
I'll drink to the garlands around it;
But first unto those
Whose hands did compose
The glory of flowers that crown'd it.

A health to my girls,
Whose husbands may earls
Or lords be, granting my wishes,
And when that ye wed
To the bridal bed,
Then multiply all, like to fishes.

[The end]
(Poet) Robert Herrick's poem: Maypole

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