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

Not Every Day fit for Verse

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

’TIS not every day that I

Fitted am to prophesy;

No, but when the spirit fills

The fantastic pannicles,

Full of fire, then I write

As the Godhead doth indite.

Thus inraged, my lines are hurled,

Like the Sibyl’s through the world:

Look how next the holy fire

Either slakes, or doth retire;

So the fancy cools, till when

That brave spirit comes agen.