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First Line: We maidens are older than most sheep
Last Line: "each call ""me."
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Girls; Greece; Greeks


WE maidens are older than most sheep,
Though not so old as the rose-bush is;
We are only as pretty as that.
We are gay as the weather. Our minds are deep
Like wells, as any boy tells
By the blushes he dares not kiss.
The hills are fond of our chat;
We dance and shake like ringing bells,
Till our hair tumbles out of our hoods.
The boys are away in the woods,
Hunting the boar or the bear.
But joy is here as well as there;
Pretend to fly
Up into the sky,
Jumping with both feet together,
Holding out like wings
Your sleeves and things.
Feeling as light as a feather,
Never wonder whether
The day be long
Or the night short,
Since all our thought
(Big as the song
Of a brown fussy bee)
But just fills the flower which we
Each call "Me."





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