Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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O careful out of measure
To fence your lovely treasure
With prudence unavailing
From what must surely be,
How quick you scent a danger
From any comely stranger
Who leans upon a railing,
Or lurks beneath a tree!
To fence your lovely treasure
With prudence unavailing
From what must surely be,
How quick you scent a danger
From any comely stranger
Who leans upon a railing,
Or lurks beneath a tree!
Then close the blind demurely,
And lock the door securely,
And lest a fraud should happen,
Be watchful of the key;
But O you may be certain
That Love will draw the curtain,
And throw the casement open,
And look abroad to see.
And lock the door securely,
And lest a fraud should happen,
Be watchful of the key;
But O you may be certain
That Love will draw the curtain,
And throw the casement open,
And look abroad to see.
And if the Fates be kindly,
And manage not too blindly,
Young Love will hatch a treason,
And struggle to be free;
And though you may not guess it,
Nor any sign confess it,
The lips you think in prison
Will be kissing on the lea.
And manage not too blindly,
Young Love will hatch a treason,
And struggle to be free;
And though you may not guess it,
Nor any sign confess it,
The lips you think in prison
Will be kissing on the lea.
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