William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Song: ‘O ruddier than the cherry!’John Gay (1685–1732)
O
O sweeter than the berry!
O nymph more bright
Than moonshine night,
Like kidlings blithe and merry!
Ripe as the melting cluster!
No lily has such lustre;
Yet hard to tame
As raging flame,
And fierce as storms that bluster!