“O Walter, We have shelter’d here Any type of maiden elegance The nice old Summertimes, season of the seasons, Produced ready into the Sumner-chace:
“Old Summertimes, in the event that monk is lbs, And you may, giving shorn and smooth, Do twist their girdle rigorous, and you can tap The fresh new girls on the new cheek.
“Ere yet, within the scorn out-of Peter’s-pence, And you will number’d bead, and you can shrift, Bluff Harry bankrupt into the spence, And you may turn’d this new cowls adrift:
“And i have observed specific rating ones New confronts, that would thrive When their guy-minded offset flower To help you chase the fresh new deer within five;
“And all sorts of the ones from the city create stroll, Right up until one wild cinch generated are employed in that your gloomy brewer’s spirit Went by me personally, like an effective stork:
“The newest limited she-slips away from faithful blood, Although some, passageway compliment, Strait-laced, but the as well complete when you look at the bud To own puritanic remains: >
“And i possess shadow’d of numerous several beauties, which were created Inside teacup-times of hood and you will hoop, Otherwise while the spot try used;
“And you can, foot and you may sleeve that have love-tangles gay, On the myself leap’d and laugh’d The fresh new Modish Cupid throughout the day, And you may shrill’d his tinsel axle.
“I swear (and you can more could possibly get pests prick For each leaf for the a great gall) Which girl, to possess whom the heart are sick, Is 3 x worth them all;
“For these and theirs, of the Nature’s legislation, Has actually faded in the past; But in these second springs We noticed Your Olivia blow,
“From when she gamboll’d to your veggies, An infant-germ, so you can in the event the maiden flora regarding their own youth You may amount four off ten.
“We claim, of the leaf, and you can wind, and you will precipitation (And you will listen to myself which have thine ears), how to meet in person chat avenue You to, tho’ We circle in brand new grain Five-hundred rings of years-
“Yet ,, since i have basic you’ll cast a shadow, Did never ever animal citation Therefore slightly, musically made, So light through to the new lawn:
“For concerning fairies, that can flit To really make the greensward new, We hold them exquisitely knit, But too free off skin.”
“O yesterday, you understand, the latest reasonable Was holden at urban area; Their own father remaining their a arm-chair, And rode their huntsman off.
“An hour or so had previous-and, sitting straight In the low-wheel’d chaise, Their own mommy trundled on the door Behind the new dappled grays.
“But, in terms of their own, she stay’d home, And on the latest roof she ran, And you will on the ways you utilize to come, She look’d which have discontent.
“She leftover new book half of-uncut Upon the fresh rosewood bookshelf; She left the new piano close: She cannot excite by herself.
“Next went she, gamesome while the colt, And you can livelier than simply good lark She delivered her sound thro’ all of the the fresh new holt Prior to their particular, and also the playground.
“A light cinch chased their own with the side, And also in the pursue grew crazy, As near just like the could well be carry out he cling Concerning darling child:
“But white because the any snap one to blows Therefore fleetly performed she blend, The newest flower she touch’d toward dipt and you may flower, And turn’d to consider their own.
“And here she emerged, and you can bullet myself play’d, And you will done to me the complete Of those three stanzas that you have made In the my personal ‘large bole’;
“Plus a fit out-of frolic mirth She strove to span my personal hips: Sadly, I found myself therefore large from width, I could not be welcomed.
