"Upon Julia's Clothes": Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
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Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
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Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
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That liquefaction of her clothes.
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Next, when I cast mine eyes, and see
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That brave vibration each way free,
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O, how that glittering taketh me!