“O Walter, I have shelter’d right here Any type of maiden grace The good dated Summer seasons, season because of the 12 months, Produced ready from inside the Sumner-chace:

“Dated Summer seasons, in the event that monk was body weight, And, providing shorn and you can sleek, Would twist his girdle strict, and you will pat Brand new girls abreast of the newest cheek.

“Ere yet ,, inside the scorn regarding Peter’s-pence, And you can number’d bead, and you will shrift, Bluff Harry broke with the spence, And you will turn’d new cowls adrift:

“And that i have seen specific get of them New confronts, who would thrive Whenever their guy-minded offset rose To pursue this new deer on four;

“As well as the ones from the town would walk, Till one to crazy breeze made work in that the gloomy brewer’s soul Went by me personally, for example a good stork:

“The latest moderate she-glides from dedicated blood, While some, passing praise, Strait-laced, however, every also complete within the bud To own puritanic remains: >

“And i also has actually shadow’d of many a small grouping of beauties, which were created Inside teacup-times of bonnet and hoop, Otherwise since spot is actually used;

“And you will, foot and you may sleeve having love-knots gay, On me leap’d and you may laugh’d The fresh new Modish Cupid of the day, And you will shrill’d his tinsel axle.

“We swear (and you may more can get pests prick For each and every leaf toward an excellent gall) That it girl, having exactly who your cardio are unwell, Is actually three times well worth these;

State thou, whereon We carved her term, When maid otherwise partner, Because the fair once the my Olivia, concerned others beneath thy boughs

“For those and theirs, by the Nature’s law, Has actually faded Maltan-naiset, jotka ovat treffit meissГ¤ long ago; But in such latter springs I watched Their Olivia strike,

“From the time she gamboll’d on the veggies, A child-germ, to help you if maiden flora out of their youth Could count four off ten.

“We claim, from the leaf, and you will piece of cake, and you will precipitation (And you will listen to me personally with thine ears), You to definitely, tho‘ We circle-in the fresh new grains Five-hundred rings away from decades-

“Yet ,, since i first could throw a shadow, Did never ever animal admission Thus slightly, musically produced, So white on new grass:

“To have as to fairies, that may flit To really make the greensward new, I hold all of them exquisitely knit, However, too spare out-of tissue.”

“O yesterday, you know, the newest fair Try holden within town; Their own father leftover their an effective case-sofa, And you may rode their huntsman down.

“An hour or so got prior-and you can, sitting upright Into the reasonable-wheel’d chaise, Their unique mother trundled to the entrance Behind new dappled grays.

“However,, as for their, she stay’d at your home, As well as on the newest roof she went, And along the means make use of to come, She look’d having discontent.

“She leftover the latest unique 50 % of-uncut On the latest rosewood shelf; She leftover the fresh piano sealed: She couldn’t please by herself.

“Upcoming went she, gamesome because colt, And you may livelier than just a beneficial lark She sent her voice thro‘ all the new holt Before their, plus the playground.

“A light wind chased their own towards the side, Along with the fresh new chase increased wild, As near as the would be carry out the guy stick Regarding darling child:

“But white while the one cinch one blows Therefore fleetly performed she blend, The fresh rose she touch’d towards the dipt and you can rose, And you will turn’d to look at their own.

“This is when she came, and you can round myself play’d, And you will done to me the complete Ones three stanzas you to definitely you have made From the my ‘giant bole‘;

Oh, mask thy gnarled knees in fern, And you will ignore the chace; And off thy topmost branch detect The brand new roofs off Sumner-put

“Along with a match off frolic mirth She strove to help you span my personal hips: Sadly, I happened to be therefore large off girth, I am able to not be accepted.