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The Hesperides & Noble Numbers (1898)
by Robert Herrick, edited by Alfred Pollard
Hesperides
The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarry of Pearls
2650567The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarry of Pearls
1898Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

75. THE ROCK OF RUBIES, AND THE QUARRY OF PEARLS.

Some ask'd me where the rubies grew,
And nothing I did say:
But with my finger pointed to
The lips of Julia.
Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where;
Then spoke I to my girl,
To part her lips, and show'd them there
The quarrelets of Pearl.

Quarrelets, little squares.