The End.

If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right;
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.

Robert Herrick

Clouds.

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Society.

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Knowledge.

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To Mistress Katharine Bradshaw, The Lovely, That Crowned Him With Laurel

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

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Conquer we shall, but we must first contend;
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An End Decreed.

Let's be jocund while we may,
All things have an ending day;
And when once the work is done,
Fates revolve no flax they've spun.

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The End Of His Work.

Part of the work remains; one part is past:
And here my ship rides, having anchor cast.

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Beginnings And Endings.

Paul, he began ill, but he ended well;
Judas began well, but he foully fell:
In godliness not the beginnings so
Much as the ends are to be look'd unto.

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To Crown It.

My wearied bark, O let it now be crown'd!
The haven reach'd to which I first was bound.

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Death Ends All Woe.

Time is the bound of things; where'er we go
Fate gives a meeting, Death's the end of woe.

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