Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HOW LILES CAME WHITE, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: White though ye be; yet lillies, know
Last Line: And made ye white.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies


White though ye be; yet, Lillies, know,
From the first ye were not so:
But Ile tell ye
What befell ye;
Cupid and his Mother lay
In a Cloud; while both did play,
He with his pretty finger prest
The rubie niplet of her breast;
Out of the which, the creame of light,
Like to a Dew,
Fell downe on you,
And made ye white.





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