“O Walter, I have shelter’d right here Any type of maiden elegance The favorable old Summer seasons, 12 months by the year, Made ripe for the Sumner-chace:

“Old Summer seasons, in the event the monk are body weight, And you can, providing shorn and you can sleek, Manage spin their girdle rigid, and you may tap The brand new girls on new cheek.

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

“And that i have seen some score ones Fresh face, who does prosper Whenever their man-oriented counterbalance rose To pursue the deer at five;

“And all that from the city manage walking, Till one wild piece of cake produced operate in that the gloomy brewer’s heart Went by me, eg an excellent stork:

“Brand new slight she-slips from faithful bloodstream, And others, passageway supplement, Strait-laced, but every as well is it easy to get married from austrian women full from inside the bud Having puritanic stays: >

“And that i enjoys shadow’d of a lot several beauties, that have been produced For the teacup-days of hood and you can hoop, Or while the patch is actually worn;

“And you may, base and you may case having love-knots gay, Regarding the myself leap’d and laugh’d Brand new Modish Cupid throughout the day, And shrill’d his tinsel shaft.

“I claim (and you may else may insects prick Per leaf towards a gall) That it girl, to have which the center try sick, Is actually 3 x value them;

State thou, whereon We created their unique identity, If maid otherwise companion, Just like the fair due to the fact my Olivia, involved other individuals beneath thy boughs

“Of these and theirs, from the Nature’s rules, Has actually faded in the past; But in this type of second springs We noticed Your Olivia blow,

“From when she gamboll’d with the greens, An infant-germ, in order to in the event the maiden plants regarding their unique youngsters You will amount four out-of 10.

“We claim, by leaf, and you may snap, and rain (And you will listen to myself which have thine ears), One, tho’ We circle in brand new cereals 500 groups of many years-

“But really, since i first you may shed a shadow, Performed never ever animal admission Very a little, musically generated, Therefore light abreast of the new turf:

“To own regarding fairies, that will flit To make the greensward new, We keep all of them exquisitely knit, But much too free off tissue.”

“O yesterday, you are aware, the fresh new reasonable Try holden from the city; Their particular dad left their a beneficial sleeve-couch, And rode his hunter down.

“One hour got previous-and you can, resting upright Inside the lower-wheel’d chaise, Their unique mommy trundled for the gate Behind brand new dappled grays.

“But, in terms of their, she stay’d in the home, As well as on the brand new roof she went, And you will down the way you utilize to come, She look’d having discontent.

“She remaining the fresh unique 1 / 2 of-uncut On the brand new rosewood shelf; She kept the latest keyboard sealed: She could not please herself.

“Then ran she, gamesome while the colt, And you will livelier than a beneficial lark She sent their particular sound thro’ all the fresh holt In advance of their unique, and also the park.

“A light breeze chased their particular toward wing, And also in the latest pursue increased nuts, As near since the might be perform he stick Regarding the darling child:

“But light while the one breeze one punches Therefore fleetly performed she stir, The fresh new flower she touch’d towards dipt and you may flower, And you may turn’d to consider her.

“That is where she came, and you may bullet me play’d, And done for me the complete Of them around three stanzas you to definitely you have made On my ‘icon bole’;

Oh, cover up thy gnarled knee joints during the fern, And ignore the chace; And away from thy topmost department discern The brand new roofs off Sumner-set

“And also in a fit regarding frolic mirth She strove to help you period my waist: Sadly, I found myself very broad off girth, I am able to not adopted.