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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Thomas Heywood. 157?1650
205. Matin Song
PACK, clouds, away! and welcome, day! | |
With night we banish sorrow. | |
Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft | |
To give my Love good-morrow! | |
Wings from the wind to please her mind, | 5 |
Notes from the lark I’ll borrow: | |
Bird, prune thy wing! nightingale, sing! | |
To give my Love good-morrow! | |
To give my Love good-morrow | |
Notes from them all I’ll borrow. | 10 |
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Wake from thy nest, robin red-breast! | |
Sing, birds, in every furrow! | |
And from each bill let music shrill | |
Give my fair Love good-morrow! | |
Blackbird and thrush in every bush, | 15 |
Stare, linnet, and cocksparrow, | |
You pretty elves, among yourselves | |
Sing my fair Love good-morrow! | |
To give my Love good-morrow! | |
Sing, birds, in every furrow! | 20 |