T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
A Pastoral
Mediæval Latin Student’s Songs(From Wine, Women and Song. Translated by John Addington Symonds) |
THERE went out in the dawning light | |
| A little rustic maiden; | |
| Her flock so white, her crook so slight, | |
| With fleecy new wool laden. | |
| Small is the flock, and there you’ll see | 5 |
| The she-ass and the wether; | |
| This goat’s a he, and that’s a she, | |
| The bull-calf and the heifer. | |
| She looked upon the green sward, where | |
| A student lay at leisure: | 10 |
| “What do you there, young sir, so fair?” | |
| “Come, play with me, my treasure!” | |