“O Walter, We have shelter’d right here Any type of maiden grace The nice old Summer seasons, year of the year, Generated ripe within the Sumner-chace:
“Dated Summertimes, in the event that monk try lbs, And you will, giving shorn and you may smooth, Perform spin his girdle tight, and you may pat The newest girls through to the latest cheek.
“Ere yet ,, in the scorn from Peter’s-pence, And you may number’d bead, and you will shrift, Bluff Harry broke on spence, And you can turn’d the new cowls adrift:
“And i also have experienced some get ones Fresh faces, who does flourish When his guy-oriented counterbalance rose To help you chase brand new deer in the four;
“As well as those of the metropolis do go, Right until that wild piece of cake produced work in that your depressing brewer’s soul Passed me personally, such a stork:
“New limited she-glides of devoted blood, And others, passage praise, Strait-laced, however, all of the too full into the bud To own puritanic stays: >
“And i possess shadow’d of several a team of beauties, that were produced Inside the teacup-days of hood and you will hoop, Otherwise since plot is worn;
“And you will, feet and sleeve which have love-tangles gay, Regarding myself leap’d and you will laugh’d The latest Modish Cupid during the day, And you may shrill’d their tinsel shaft.
“I swear (and more may insects prick Each leaf to your a great gall) This girl, to own whom their center is ill, Is actually 3 times worthy of everyone;
State thou, whereon I carved their title, If maid otherwise companion, As fair due to the fact my personal Olivia, involved other individuals beneath thy boughs
“Of these and you can theirs, by the Nature’s legislation, Enjoys faded way back; In these second springs I noticed Your own Olivia strike,
“From when she gamboll’d on the greens, A child-germ, in order to in the event that maiden flowers out of their Bright women net unique young people You will amount five regarding 10.
“We claim, from the leaf, and snap, and you may rain (And you will tune in to me personally which have thine ears), One to, tho’ We circle in the brand new cereals 500 groups out of decades-
“Yet, since i have basic you will definitely cast a trace, Performed never ever creature ticket Very a little, musically made, So light up on the latest lawn:
“Getting about fairies, that may flit To really make the greensward new, I keep them exquisitely knit, But too free of flesh.”
“O yesterday, you understand, the new reasonable Is holden during the urban area; Her dad left his a great sleeve-chair, And you will rode their huntsman off.
“An hour had earlier in the day-and you can, sitting straight In the reduced-wheel’d chaise, Their own mother trundled on the door Behind the fresh dappled grays.
“But, for their particular, she stay’d yourself, As well as on new roof she ran, And you will down the method you use ahead, She look’d with discontent.
“She left the latest novel 1 / 2 of-uncut Up on the fresh new rosewood shelf; She leftover the brand new keyboard shut: She could not excite herself.
“Next ran she, gamesome because colt, And you will livelier than just good lark She delivered their own sound thro’ the new holt In advance of their particular, as well as the playground.
“A light cinch chased their toward wing, Plus brand new pursue increased insane, As near given that might possibly be create he embrace Regarding the darling child:
“However, white once the one piece of cake one to punches So fleetly did she blend, The rose she touch’d for the dipt and you will flower, And you will turn’d to look at their particular.
“That’s where she arrived, and you may bullet myself play’d, And you can sang to me the complete Of these three stanzas you to definitely you made Regarding the my personal ‘giant bole’;
Oh, cover-up thy gnarled legs for the fern, And you can overlook the chace; And you can off thy topmost branch detect The new roofs regarding Sumner-put
“As well as in a fit of frolic mirth She strove in order to period my personal sides: Sadly, I found myself therefore large from thickness, I’m able to never be accepted.