Compare "The Amber Bead" by Herrick I saw a fly within a bead Of amber cleanly burièd: The urn was little, but the room More rich than Cleopatra's tomb.
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Another Herrick, "Upon a Flie". Perhaps unsurprising that he loved this trope; to quote Rosalie Colie, Herrick is "supremely a poet of the little"
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