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Updated: September 7, 2025
Swains in high-heeled shoon, and lace, shepherdesses in rouge and diamonds, the world is weary of all concerning them, save their images in porcelain, effigies how unlike the golden figures, dedicate to Aphrodite, of Bombyca and Battus. Somewhat, Theocritus, thou hast to answer for, thou that first of men brought the shepherd to Court, and made courtiers wild to go a Maying with the shepherds.
Then the president commands his minion to place it tenderly in his buttonhole." "Look at the sea of faces ... lorgnettes, too. The minion dassen't." "Oh, that we two were Maying!" "You misread our announcement," said Beverley Byrd, romping up. "No opening for young men here, Gardy! Butt out." West left her, his well-shaped head in something of a whirl.
The "Serenade" is an original bit of work, but the song, "Oh, that We Two were Maying!" with a voice in the accompaniment making it the duet it should be, that song can have no higher praise than this, that it is the complete, the final musical fulfilment of one of the rarest lyrics in our language.
'Of course the end of all is death, but we will go a-Maying first, come October, and let the world break over us when it must. We are for Maying now, my rose of all the world! It was as if he meant more than he said, as if he saw what would come in that October which all New France never forgot, when, as he said, the world broke over them. "The next morning the Baron called Garoche to him.
Mon Fils," of "Le Prophete," with great effect, accompanying herself. But this was not the kind of music to please our audience. No one questioned this, and he was allowed to remain unheard. Later I sang "Oh! that We Two were Maying," by Gounod, a much too serious song; but the Empress said she thought it was the most beautiful one she had ever heard. I think so, too.
It has been said, I do not know on what authority, that the poet had no recollection of composing Sir Galahad, any more than Scott remembered composing The Bride of Lammermoor, or Thackeray parts of Pendennis. The haunting of Tennyson's mind by the Arthurian legends prompted also the lovely fragment on the Queen's last Maying, Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere, a thing of perfect charm and music.
'I am about to ascend to the parapets of the cathedral, said she, in answer to a half inquiry. 'I should be delighted to accompany you, he rejoined, in a manner as capable of explanation by his knowledge of her secret as was Ethelberta's manner by her sense of nearing the end of her maying.
"Standing at the gate. How long will it take you to get ready?" "Oh, I'll hurry like anything." "'Wash, dress, be brief in praying. Few beads are best when once we go a Maying." "I won't pray, I won't put on beads. But, see here, what about what they call in this country my collation? You know I'm a gump on an empty stomach."
With admirable good nature, Herrick made the best of these uncongenial surroundings. He watched with sympathy the country life about him and caught its spirit in many lyrics, a few of which, like "Corinna's Maying," "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may," and "To Daffodils," are among the best known in our language.
Now this knight, Sir Maleagans, learned the queen's purpose, and that she had no men of arms with her but the ten noble knights all arrayed in green for maying; so he prepared him twenty men of arms, and a hundred archers, to take captive the queen and her knights. "In the merry month of May, In a morn at break of day, With a troop of damsels playing, The Queen, forsooth, went forth a-maying."
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