THE MEADOWS.

E have been fresh and green,
Ye have been fill'd with flowers;
And ye the walks have been
Where maids have spent their hours.

Ye have beheld where they
With wicker arks did come,

To kiss and bear away

The richer cowslips home.

Ye have heard them sweetly sing,
And seen them in a round,
Each virgin, like a spring,
With honeysuckles crown'd.

But now we see none here
Whose silvery feet did tread,
And with dishevell'd hair
Adorn'd this smoother mead.

Like bankrupts, having spent
Your stock, and needy grown,
You're left but to lament

Your poor estates alone.

HERRICK.

We have short time to stay as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay
As you, or any thing.

We die

As your hours do, and dry

Away,

Like to the summer's rain;

Or as the pearls of morning's dew,

Ne'er to be found again.

HERRICK.

THE FOUNTAIN.

TRANGER, whoe'er thou art, that stoop'st to taste

These sweeter streams, let me arrest thy haste:

Nor of their fall

The murmurs (though the lyre
Less sweet be) stand t' admire-
But as you shall

See from this marble tun

The liquid crystal run,

And mark, withall,

How fix'd the one abides,

How fast the other glides,

Instructed thus, the difference learn to see "Twixt mortal life and immortality.

SHERBURNE.

Because thou art not seen,

Although thy breath be rude.

Heigh ho! sing heigh ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere follyThen heigh ho! the holly!

Heigh ho! sing heigh ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly-
Then heigh ho! the holly!
This life is most jolly.

SHAKESPEARE.