William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.
Song to MayEdward Hovell-Thurlow, Lord Thurlow (17811829)
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And fulfilling flowers,
With what pretty music
Shall we charm the hours?
Wilt thou have pipe and reed,
Blown in the open mead?
Or to the lute give heed
In the green bowers?
Or pipe or wire;
Thou hast the golden bee
Ripened with fire;
And many thousand more
Songsters, that thee adore
Filling earth’s grassy floor
With new desire.
Tame, and free-livers;
Doubt not, thy music too
In the deep rivers;
And the whole plumy flight,
Warbling the day and night—
Up at the gates of light,
See, the lark quivers!