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Spring Morning - I

By William Browne

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Thomalin.     Where is every piping lad     That the fields are not yclad         With their milk-white sheep?     Tell me: is it holiday,     Or if in the month of May         Use they long to sleep?     Piers.     Thomalin, 'tis not too late,     For the turtle and her mate         Sitten yet in nest:     And the thrustle hath not been     Gath'ring worms yet on the green,         But attends her rest.     Not a bird hath taught her young,     Nor her morning's lesson sung         In the shady grove:     But the nightingale in dark     Singing woke the mounting lark:         She records her love.     Not the sun hath with his beams     Gilded yet our crystal streams;         Rising from the sea,     Mists do crown the mountains' tops,     And each pretty myrtle drops:         'Tis but newly day.     The Shepherd's Pipe.

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