Julia, if I chance to die
Ere I print my poetry,
I most humbly thee desire
To commit it to the fire:
Better 'twere my book were dead,
Than to live not perfected. 

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Poet: Robert Herrick
Poem: HIS REQUEST TO JULIA

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