GOLDEN LEAVES. I. William Shakespeare. SPRING AND WINTER. WHE SPRING. HEN daisies pied, and violets blue, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, Cuckoo, cuckoo,-O word of fear, II. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo,-O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! WINTER. III. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And milk comes frozen home in pail, Tu-whit, to-who; a merry note, IV. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, Tu-whit, to-who; a merry note, Ο LOVE'S PERJURIES. N a day, alack the day! Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind That the lover, sick to death, Wish'd himself the heaven's breath. |