by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Cherry ripe
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Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer: There, Where my Julia's lips do smile; There's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Cherry-ripe", appears in The Hesperides [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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