Thomas Heywood. 157?-1650
205. Matin Song
1 min to read
114 words

PACK, clouds, away! and welcome, day!   With night we banish sorrow. Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft   To give my Love good-morrow! Wings from the wind to please her mind,   Notes from the lark I'll borrow: Bird, prune thy wing! nightingale, sing!   To give my Love good-morrow!       To give my Love good-morrow       Notes from them all I'll borrow.

Wake from thy nest, robin red-breast!   Sing, birds, in every furrow! And from each bill let music shrill   Give my fair Love good-morrow! Blackbird and thrush in every bush,   Stare, linnet, and cocksparrow, You pretty elves, among yourselves   Sing my fair Love good-morrow!       To give my Love good-morrow!       Sing, birds, in every furrow!

stare] starling.

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Thomas Heywood. 157?-1650
206. The Message
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194 words
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