To Meadows: Ye Have Been Fresh and Green
Ye have been fresh and green
Yet have been fill'd with flowers
And ye the walks have been
Where maids have spent their hours
You have beheld how they
With wicker arks did come
To kiss and bear away
The richer cowslips home
You've heard them sweetly sing
And seen them in a round
Each virgin like a spring
With honeysuckles crown'd
But now we see none here
Whose silv'ry feet did tread
And with dishevell'd hair
Adorn'd this smoother mead
Like unthrifts, having spent
Your stock and needy grown
You're left here to lament
Your poor estates, alone
Yet have been fill'd with flowers
And ye the walks have been
Where maids have spent their hours
You have beheld how they
With wicker arks did come
To kiss and bear away
The richer cowslips home
You've heard them sweetly sing
And seen them in a round
Each virgin like a spring
With honeysuckles crown'd
But now we see none here
Whose silv'ry feet did tread
And with dishevell'd hair
Adorn'd this smoother mead
Like unthrifts, having spent
Your stock and needy grown
You're left here to lament
Your poor estates, alone
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Herrick
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