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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FORTUNY'S PIPING SHEPHERD, by MELVILLE UPTON
First Line: What youth is that who pipes so lustily
Last Line: And mirth and laughter of a youth divine.
Subject(s): Pipers; Youth
First Line: What youth is that who pipes so lustily
Last Line: And mirth and laughter of a youth divine.
Subject(s): Pipers; Youth
What youth is that who pipes so lustily,
Singing of summer and the days of June
While all his flocks shunning the heat of noon,
Have sought the shade beneath some spreading tree.
He pipes to crickets and the wandering bee
In fields untenanted, until the moon
And night disturb his notes, alas, too soon;
And yet that song shall never cease: to me
It shall be a joy and a delight,
Telling of rustic things; September's bells
And sound of rural cares, with tales by night
Of sheep that strayed in far-off, shadowy dells
Of purpling grapes and red lips stained with wine,
And mirth and laughter of a youth divine.
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