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'When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree My stratagem succeeded completely.
And did they realise that the words they heard were deathless words? Imagine hearing for the first time: 'When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver white.... and then 'The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. Did you ever try to write, Jean?" "Pamela," said Jean, "if you drop from Shakespeare to me in that sudden way you'll be dizzy.
At the foot of the slope lay a stretch of pasture ground, some parts covered by "lady-smocks, all silver white," with the course of the little stream through the midst indicated by a perfect golden river of shining kingcups interspersed with ferns.
At the foot of the slope lay a stretch of pasture ground, some parts covered by "lady-smocks, all silver white," with the course of the little stream through the midst indicated by a perfect golden river of shining kingcups interspersed with ferns.
Isaac Walton, in his book called The Complete Angler, thus describes the animated scene: "Look! down at the bottom of the hill there, in the meadow, checkered with water-lilies and lady-smocks; there you may see what work they make; look! look! you may see all busy men and dogs dogs and men all busy." At last the otter is found. Then barked the dogs, and shouted the men!
"'When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree " Gregory turned on him. "How can you quote poetry, and hold the views you do? We ought to construct " "You want to build before you've laid your foundations," said Mr. Paramor. "You let your feelings carry you away, Vigil.
It is not as it was in your time, Father, when a man might leave his shop in Fleet Street, of a holiday, and, when he had stretched his legs up Tottenham Hill, come lightly to meadows chequered with waterlilies and lady-smocks, and so fall to his sport.
There were more important matters near at hand; May Day was approaching, an event of interest and excitement to both young and old. "When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight." Shakespeare.
Daisies pied, and violets blue, And cuckoo buds of yellow hue, And lady-smocks all silver white, Do paint the meadows with delight.
"The lady-smocks In silver frocks Do flout the sonsy clover; The humble bee Consorts wi' me And hails me for a rover. "Then trip, then trip, And if ye slip Your lad will lend a hand O; The lass in green With black, black een, Is the fairest in the land O." And as the earl listened methought he would have fallen, grasping my shoulder, old man as I was, and bending down his head upon it.
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