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On my First SonneBY BEN JONSONFarewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;My sin was too much hope of thee, lov’d boy.Seven years tho’ wert lent to me, and I thee pay,Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.O, could I lose all father now! For whyWill man lament the state he should envy?ToContinue reading “On my First Sonne : Ben Jonson : : Son’s Poems : :”