YE CRYER:
Here’s a reward for who’ll find Love!
Love is a-straying
Ever since Maying,
Hither and yon, below, above,
All are seeking Love!
YE HAND-BILL:
Gone astray-between the Maying
And the gathering of the hay,
Love, an urchin ever playing-
Folk are warned against his play.
How may you know him? By the quiver,
By the bow he’s wont to bear.
First on your left there comes a shiver,
Then a twinge-the arrow’s there.
By his eye of pansy color,
Deep as wounds he dealeth iree;
If its hue have faded duller,
‘T is not that he weeps for me.
By the smile that curls his mouthlet;
By the mockery of his sigh;
By his breath, a spicy South, let
Slip his lips of roses by.
By the devil in his dimple;
By his lies that sound so true;
By his shaft-sting, that no simple
Ever culled will heal for you.
By his beckonings that embolden;
By his quick withdrawings then;
By his flying hair, a golden
Light to lure the feet of men.
By the breast where ne’er a hurt’ll
Rankle ‘neath his kerchief hid-
What? you cry; he wore a kirtle?
Faith! methinks the rascal did!
Here’s a reward for who’ll find Love!
Love is a-straying
Ever since Maying;
Hither and yon, below, above,
I am seeking Love.
(Henry Cuyler Bunner)
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