“O Walter, We have shelter’d right here Any sort of maiden elegance The favorable dated Summer seasons, season by season, Produced mature for the Sumner-chace:
“Old Summer seasons, when the monk is actually body weight, And, giving shorn and sleek, Carry out twist their girdle tight, and pat The fresh new girls abreast of the fresh cheek.
“Ere yet, in scorn out-of Peter’s-pence, And you may number’d bead, and you can shrift, Bluff Harry bankrupt into spence, And you may turn’d brand new cowls adrift:
“And i have seen certain get of these Fresh face, that would flourish When their man-inclined counterbalance flower In order to chase the new deer within five;
“And all sorts of the ones from the city create walk, Right up until one insane cinch made work in that your depressing brewer’s spirit Went by me, such as for instance a beneficial stork:
“The fresh slight she-slides out of faithful blood, Although some, passage praise, Strait-laced, but all as well complete inside bud Having puritanic remains: >
“And that i possess shadow’d of several a small grouping of beauties, which were born Inside the teacup-days of hood and you will hoop, Otherwise once the spot is used;
“And you can, leg and you will case that have love-tangles gay, In the myself leap’d and you may laugh’d The brand new Modish Cupid during the day, And shrill’d his tinsel shaft.
“I claim (and more will get pests prick For every single leaf for the a gall) That it girl, to possess which the cardio try sick, Are 3 times worth them all;
State thou, whereon We created her label, When housemaid or lover, Since the reasonable since the my Olivia, involved other individuals underneath thy boughs
“For these and you can theirs, of the Nature’s legislation, Features faded in the past; However in these types of second springs I watched Your Olivia strike,
“From when she gamboll’d with the veggies, A child-germ, in order to in the event that maiden flora from their particular teens Could amount five from ten.
“I swear, from the leaf, and you may breeze, and you will precipitation (And you may hear myself that have thine ears), That, tho’ We circle-in the grains 500 bands out-of age-
“Yet ,, since i have very first you can expect to cast a shadow, Performed never ever creature pass Therefore a bit, musically generated, Very light through to new grass:
“For as to fairies, which can flit To make the greensward fresh, I hold them exquisitely knit, However, far too free from skin.”
“O past, you realize, the fresh new fair Are holden on town; Their dad remaining his an effective arm-couch, And you can rode his hunter off.
“An hour or so had earlier-and, sitting straight In low-wheel’d chaise, Their unique mom trundled toward entrance At the rear of the fresh new dappled grays.
“But, for her, she stay’d at your home, And on the newest roof she went, And you may down the ways you use in the future, She look’d which have discontent.
“She remaining the latest unique half of-uncut Upon the fresh rosewood bookshelf; She remaining the latest guitar shut: She cannot please by herself.
“After that ran she, gamesome while the colt, And livelier than a beneficial lark She delivered their unique voice thro’ most of the new holt Prior to their, while the playground.
“A light Suomi-naiset breeze chased their for the wing, Plus the fresh new chase became insane, As close because the would be do he stick Concerning darling child:
“But white just like the one wind one punches Very fleetly did she blend, The brand new flower she touch’d into the dipt and flower, And turn’d to take on their own.
“This is how she emerged, and you may bullet me play’d, And you may done in my opinion the entire Ones three stanzas that you have made From the my ‘giant bole’;
Oh, mask thy gnarled hips during the fern, And you can disregard the chace; And you can away from thy topmost part detect The newest roofs out-of Sumner-lay
“Plus in a complement from frolic mirth She strove so you can duration my personal sides: Alas, I was therefore broad out-of girth, I’m able to not adopted.
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