Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (18031882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880. | | Easter | By George Herbert (15931633) |
| I GOT me flowers to strew Thy way; | |
I got me boughs off many a tree; | |
But thou wast up by break of day, | |
And broughtst Thy sweets along with Thee. | |
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The sun arising in the east, | 5 |
Though he give light, and the east perfume; | |
If they should offer to contest | |
With Thy arising, they presume. | |
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Can there be any day but this, | |
Though many suns to shine endeavor? | 10 |
We count three hundred,but we miss: | |
There is but one, and that one ever. | | | |
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