John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued) |
| The white pink, and the pansy freakt with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attir’d woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears. |
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| So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. |
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| He touch’d the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay. |
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| To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. |
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| Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles. |
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| Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. |
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| The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. |
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| And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. |
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| Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom’d high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes. |
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| Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. |
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| To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequer’d shade. |
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