Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark

How each field turns a street, each street a park

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Made green and trimmed with trees; see how

Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door ere this

wove;

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As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Can such delights be in the street
And open fields and we not see't?
Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey
The proclamation made for May:
And sin no more, as we have done, by
staying;

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But, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.

Many a glance too has been sent

From out the eye, love's firmament; Many a jest told of the keys betraying 55 This night, and locks picked, yet we're not a-Maying.

prayers.

Come, let us go while we are in our prime;
And take the harmless folly of the time.
We shall grow old apace, and die
Before we know our liberty.

Our life is short, and our days run
As fast away as does the sun;

And, as a vapor or a drop of rain,
Once lost, can ne'er be found again,
So when or you or I are made
A fable, song, or fleeting shade,
All love, all liking, all delight
Lies drowned with us in endless night.
Then while time serves, and we are but
decaying,

Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a-
Maying.

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TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting,

The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting.

бо

That age is best which is the first,

When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former.

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HOW ROSES CAME RED

Roses at first were white,
Till they could not agree,
Whether my Sapho's breast

Or they more white should be.

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Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For, having lost but once your prime, 15
You may forever tarry.