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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAYING SONG, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: "sister, awake! Close not your eyes!"
Last Line: All in our gowns of green so gay / into the park a-maying
Variant Title(s): Madrigal
Subject(s): Morning
First Line: "sister, awake! Close not your eyes!"
Last Line: All in our gowns of green so gay / into the park a-maying
Variant Title(s): Madrigal
Subject(s): Morning
SISTER, awake! close not your eyes!
The day her light discloses,
And the bright morning doth arise
Out of her bed of roses.
See the clear sun, the world's bright eye,
In at our window peeping:
Lo, how he blusheth to espy
Us idle wenches sleeping!
Therefore awake! make haste, I say,
And let us, without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the Park a-maying!
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