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Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a maying, &c. Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair, So buxom, blythe, and debonair as Milton says. Here are vines, mulberries, olives; of course, wine, silk, and oil: every thing that can seduce, every thing that ought to satisfy desiring man. Here then in consequence do actually delight to reside mirth and good-humour in their holiday dress.
I have been among the trees for more than an hour, and there is little bloom upon them. 'I could not come before, Lily. I was kept, and in a strange manner. Also I saw bloom as I ran. 'Indeed, I never thought that you would come, Thomas, she answered, looking down, 'who have other things to do than to go out maying like a girl.
But he thought more of the fact that he had been beguiled into spending his wedding-night in a graveyard, in such questionable company, and of what explanation he could make to Adelaide. Of Young Persons in May The tale tells how Florian de Puysange came in the dawn through flowering gardens, and heard young people from afar, already about their maying.
It was so high and sweet and clear that the listener caught her breath in sheer amazement. She stood spellbound, while the wonderful voice sang on and on to the last note of the exquisite "Serenade" that seemed to end in a long-drawn sigh. Marjorie knocked lightly, but no one responded. The singer had begun again. This time it was Nevin's "Oh That We Two Were Maying."
But you must not think, my children, that our life is a little thing because of this; I only mean that one thing is as little and as great as another, and that maids maying in the country are as much about God's business as kings and cardinals who strive in palaces, and who give to this man a collar of Saint Spirit, and to that man a collar of hemp.
The sweetest of our poets, the most humorous of our many writers cannot keep the thought of death and futility away. His loveliest lyric begins "Oh, fair maids Maying In gardens green, Through deep dells straying, What end hath been. Two Mays between Of the flow'rs that shone And your own sweet queen? They are dead and gone." There is the burden "dead and gone." Another singer chants to us thus
And Helen, nodding intelligently, lingered a moment and then moved to where The Don sat, while Brown went toward the piano. "Must get these youngsters inoculated with the Occidental microbe," he muttered as he took his place beside Mrs. Fairbanks, who was listening with pleased approval to the "Maying" duet, the pauses of which Brown industriously employed in soothing her ruffled feelings.
But these two the man especially had nothing to say, yet ached for words. "Nance Treweek's married," the woman managed to tell him at last. "I was thinking it likely, by the way she carried on last Maying." "That wasn' the man. She've kept company with two since him, and mated with a fourth man altogether quite a different sort, in the commercial traveller line." "Did he wear a seal weskit?"
"In regard to the maiden," said he, smiling and shaking his head, "it is not always the handsomest that win us the most, while fair Meg went a maying, black Meg got to church; and I give thee more reasonable warning than thy timbrel-girls, when, in spite of thy cold language, I bid thee take care of thyself against her attractions; for, verily, my dear foster-brother, thou must mend and not mar thy fortune, by thy love matters; and keep thy heart whole for some fair one with marks in her gipsire, whom the earl may find out for thee.
He has been called the English Catullus, but he strikes rather the Horatian note of Carpe diem and regret at the shortness of life and youth in many of his best-known poems, such as Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may, and To Corinna, To Go a Maying.
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