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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Prayer to Ben Jonson

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

WHEN I a verse shall make,

Know I have prayed thee,

For old religion’s sake,

Saint Ben, to aid me.

Make the way smooth for me,

When I, thy Herrick,

Honoring thee, on my knee

Offer my lyric.

Candles I’ll give to thee,

And a new altar;

And thou, Saint Ben, shalt be

Writ in my psalter.