The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/The Departure of the Good Demon

The Hesperides & Noble Numbers (1898)
by Robert Herrick, edited by Alfred Pollard
Hesperides
The Departure of the Good Demon
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The Departure of the Good Demon
1898Robert Herrick

334. THE DEPARTURE OF THE GOOD DEMON.

What can I do in poetry
Now the good spirit's gone from me?
Why, nothing now but lonely sit
And over-read what I have writ.