Ye Nymphes of Mulla, which with carefull heed               #39
                The silver scaly trouts doe tend full well,
                And greedy pikes which use therein to feed;
                (Those trouts and pikes all others doo excell;)
                And ye likewise, which keepe the rushy lake,
                Where none doo fishes take;
                Bynd up the locks the which hang scatterd light,
                And in his waters, which your mirror make,
                Behold your faces as the christall bright,
                That when you come whereas my love doth lie,
                No blemish she may spie.
                And eke, ye lightfoot mayds, which keepe the deere,
                That on the hoary mountayne used to towre;
                And the wylde wolves, which seeke them to devoure,
                 With your steele darts doo chace from comming neer;
                Be also present heere,
                To helpe to decke her, and to help to sing,
                That all the woods may answer, and your eccho ring.

                Wake now, my love, awake! for it is time;
                The Rosy Morne long since left Tithones bed,
                All ready to her silver coche to clyme;
                And Phoebus gins to shew his glorious hed.
                Hark! how the cheerefull birds do chaunt theyr laies
                And carroll of Loves praise.
                The merry Larke hir mattins sings aloft;
                The Thrush replyes; the Mavis descant playes;
                The Ouzell shrills; the Ruddock warbles soft;
                So goodly all agree, with sweet consent,
                To this dayes merriment.
                Ah! my deere love, why doe ye sleepe thus long?
                When meeter were that ye should now awake,
                T' awayt the comming of your joyous make,
                And hearken to the birds love-learnèd song,
                The deawy leaves among!
                Nor they of joy and pleasance to you sing,
                That all the woods them answer, and theyr eccho ring.
                                                        --Edmund Spenser
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