| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| With a Copy of Herrick |
| | | Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849–1928) |
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| FRESH with all airs of woodland brooks | |
| And scents of showers, | |
| Take to your haunt of holy books | |
| This saint of flowers. | |
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| When meadows burn with budding May, | 5 |
| And heaven is blue, | |
| Before his shrine our prayers we say,— | |
| Saint Robin true. | |
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| Love crowned with thorns is on his staff,— | |
| Thorns of sweet briar; | 10 |
| His benediction is a laugh, | |
| Birds are his choir. | |
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| His sacred robe of white and red | |
| Unction distils; | |
| He hath a nimbus round his head | 15 |
| Of daffodils. | |
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