We read how Faunus, he the shepherds' god,
His wife to death whipped with a myrtle rod.
The rod, perhaps, was better'd by the name;
But had it been of birch, the death's the same.
Upon Faunus
Robert Herrick
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Poem topics: god, wife, death, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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