Comic Tales and Lyrical Fancies including The Chessiad, a Mock-Heroic, in Five Cantos; and The Wreath of Love, in Four Cantos. By C. Dibdin, the Younger |
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THE LOVER'S CALL. |
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THE LOVER'S CALL.
Up, my maiden, and bind your hair,
Up, and inhale the morning air;
Over the meadow, and brush the dew,
And the odours of morning shall breathe for you.
Up, and inhale the morning air;
Over the meadow, and brush the dew,
And the odours of morning shall breathe for you.
Up, and welcome the freshful morn;
Instead of the beetle to wind his horn,
Hark! where the hum of the golden bee
Directs to the flowers I'll cull for thee.
Instead of the beetle to wind his horn,
Hark! where the hum of the golden bee
Directs to the flowers I'll cull for thee.
Up, and away where the May-bud blooms,
Where the glittering glow-worm at night illumes;
But now the dew sparkles, with diamond sheen,
On the blossom that shall on your breast be seen.
Where the glittering glow-worm at night illumes;
But now the dew sparkles, with diamond sheen,
On the blossom that shall on your breast be seen.
Up, for the lark has commenc'd his song;
Up, for morn's loveliness beams not long;
Your own chaste emblems arise and see,
For yours are morn's sweetness and purity.
Up, for morn's loveliness beams not long;
Your own chaste emblems arise and see,
For yours are morn's sweetness and purity.
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