ROBERT HERRICK

��260. The Bracelet: To Julia

VVTHY I tie about thy wrist,

Julia, this silken twist; For what other reason is 't But to show thee how, in part, Thou my pretty captive art? But thy bond-slave is my heart: 'Tis but silk that bindeth thee, Knap the thread and thou art free; But 'tis otherwise with me: I am bound and fast bound, so That from thee I cannot go ; If I could, I would not so.

��261. To ^Daisies, not to shut so soon

HUT not so soon ; the dull-eyed night

Has not as yet begun To make a seizure on the light, Or to seal up the sun.

No marigolds yet closed are,

No shadows great appear; Nor doth the early shepherd's star

Shine like a spangle here.

Stay but till my Julia close

Her life-begetting eye, And let the whole world then dispose

Itself to live or die.

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