Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Louise ImogenGuiney

1423 Valse Jeune

ARE favoring ladies above thee?

Are there dowries and lands? Do they say

Seven others are fair? But I love thee:

Aultre n’auray!

All the sea is a lawn in our country;

All the morrow, our star of delay.

I am King: let me live on thy bounty!

Aulture n’auray!

To the fingers so light and so rosy

That have pinioned my heart,(welladay!)

Be a kiss, be a ring with this posy:

Aultre n’auray!