Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | VII. Love’s Power | | Minstrels’ Marriage Song | | Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) |
| | From “Œlla: A Tragical Interlude”
First Minstrel. THE BUDDING floweret blushes at the light: | |
| The meads are sprinkled with the yellow hue; | |
| In daisied mantles is the mountain dight; | |
| The slim young cowslip bendeth with the dew; | |
| The trees enleafèd, into heaven straught, | 5 |
| When gentle winds do blow, to whistling din are brought. | |
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| The evening comes and brings the dew along; | |
| The ruddy welkin sheeneth to the eyne; | |
| Around the ale-stake minstrels sing the song; | |
| Young ivy round the doorpost doth entwine; | 10 |
| I lay me on the grass; yet, to my will, | |
| Albeit all is fair, there lacketh something still. | |
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Second Minstrel. So Adam thought, what time, in Paradise, | |
| All heaven and earth did homage to his mind. | |
| In woman and none else man’s pleasaunce lies, | 15 |
| As instruments of joy are kind with kind. | |
| Go, take a wife unto thine arms, and see | |
| Winter and dusky hills will have a charm for thee. | | | | |
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