The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To the Earl of Westmoreland

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To the Earl of Westmoreland
1898Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

112. TO THE EARL OF WESTMORELAND.

When my date's done, and my grey age must die,
Nurse up, great lord, this my posterity:
Weak though it be, long may it grow and stand,
Shored up by you, brave Earl of Westmoreland.