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First Line: Maidens, o you pretty things
Last Line: This our maiden merriment!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich


MAIDENS, O you pretty things,
Company of loving ones,
Maidens, go ye frolicking,
Darlings in your revelry!
Strike ye up your roundelay,
Roundelay and ritual;
See ye lure the lad to us
Where we circle round about

When we lure the lad to us,
When we see him distantly,
Darlings, let us scatter then
And with cherries pelt at him,
Cherries and with raspberries,
And with currants, ruddy ones!
Never come to listen at
Roundelays of ritual,
Never come to spy upon
This our maiden merriment!





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