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A PASTORAL by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE

First Line: COME YOU, MARY, THERE'S A DEAR!
Last Line: COME YOU, MARY!
Subject(s): COURTSHIP; NATURE;

COME you, Mary, there's a dear!
Mind no more the plaguy dairy!
Milk can never match your white—
Come you, Mary!

All the music of my scythe
Sang you in the heated meadow;
And I thought your shape behind
Every shadow!

Down with pails, and bring those lips
(Roseleaves in the happy dairy)
To the chestnut where we kiss—
Come you, Mary!



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