The Weeping Cherry

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The Weeping Cherry
by Robert Herrick
See: Hesperides Published 1648.


(23.) The Weeping Cherry

I saw a Cherry weep, and why?
Why wept it? but for shame,
Because my Julia's lip was by,
And did out-red the same.
But pretty Fondling, let not fall
A teare at all for that:
Which Rubies, Corralls, Scarlets, all
For tincture, wonder at.