Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, "IN SUMMER TIME, WHEN FLOWERS DO SPRING", by ANONYMOUS


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"IN SUMMER TIME, WHEN FLOWERS DO SPRING", by                    
Last Line: Under the greenwood tree
Subject(s): Summer


IN Summer time, when flowers do spring,
And birds sit on each tree,
Let lords and knights say what they will,
There's none so merry as we.
There's Will and Moll, with Harry and Doll,
And Tom and bonny Bettee:
O! how they do whisk it, caper, and frisk it,
Under the greenwood tree.

Our music is a little pipe
That can so sweetly play,
We hire old Hal from Whitsuntide
Till latter Lammas Day;
In summer morns and holidays,
At even, too, comes he
And then we do skip it, caper, and trip it,
Under the greenwood tree.

'Come play us Adam and Eve,' says Dick;
'What's that?' says little Pipe;
'The beginning of the World', quoth Dick;
'For we are dancing ripe.'

'Is't that you call? than have at all!'
He played with merry glee;
O then did we skip it, caper, and trip it,
Under the greenwood tree.





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