The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/On Himself (Ask me why I do not sing)

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On Himself1898Robert Herrick

332. ON HIMSELF.

Ask me why I do not sing
To the tension of the string
As I did not long ago,
When my numbers full did flow?
Grief, ay, me! hath struck my lute
And my tongue, at one time, mute.