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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

Song: ‘O ruddier than the cherry!’

John Gay (1685–1732)

O RUDDIER than the cherry!

O sweeter than the berry!

O nymph more bright

Than moonshine night,

Like kidlings blithe and merry!

Ripe as the melting cluster!

No lily has such lustre;

Yet hard to tame

As raging flame,

And fierce as storms that bluster!