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Poem by Robert Herrick Dean-Bourn, a Rude River in Devon DEAN-BOURN, farewell; I never look to see Deane, or thy warty incivility. Thy rockie bottome, that doth teare thy streams, And makes them frantick, ev’n to all extreames, To my content, I never sho’d behold, Were thy streams silver, or thy rocks all gold. Rockie thou art; and rockie we discover Thy men; and rockie are thy wayes all over. O men, O manners! now, and ever knowne To be a rockie generation! A people currish, churlish as the seas, And rude, almost, as rudest salvages; With whom I did, and may re-sojourne when Rockes turn to rivers, rivers turn to men. Robert Herrick Robert Herrick's other poems:
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