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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000055.txt from 2006/12

From: gtowle83@-----.net
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:48:12 -0500

Nice, Janie!!

The missing last line:

T'ave lost the good ye might have had.

Best,

john

> THE WASSAIL
>
>
> Give way, give way, ye gates, and win
> An easy blessing to your bin
> And basket, by our entering in.
>
> May both with manchet stand replete;
> Your larders, too, so hung with meat,
> That though a thousand, thousand eat,
>
> Yet, ere twelve moons shall whirl about
> Their silv'ry spheres, there's none may doubt
> But more's sent in than was served out.
>
> Next, may your dairies prosper so,
> As that your pans no ebb may know;
> But if they do, the more to flow,
>
> Like to a solemn sober stream,
> Bank'd all with lilies, and the cream
> Of sweetest cowslips filling them.
>
> Then may your plants be press'd with fruit,
> Nor bee or hive you have be mute,
> But sweetly sounding like a lute.
>
> Last, may your harrows, shares, and ploughs,
> Your stacks, your stocks, your sweetest mows,
> All prosper by your virgin-vows.
>
> --Alas! we bless, but see none here,
> That brings us either ale or beer;
> In a dry-house all things are near.
>
> Let's leave a longer time to wait,
> Where rust and cobwebs bind the gate;
> And all live here with needy fate;
>
> Where chimneys do for ever weep
> For want of warmth, and stomachs keep
> With noise the servants' eyes from sleep.
>
> It is in vain to sing, or stay
> Our free feet here, but we'll away:
> Yet to the Lares this we'll say:
>
> 'The time will come when you'll be sad,
> 'And reckon this for fortune bad.
>
>
> -Robert Herrick (1591-1674) English poet
>
>
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