- THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS
LOVE
- by: Christopher Marlowe
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- Come live with me, and be my love;
- And we will all the pleasures prove
- That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
- Woods or steepy mountain yields.
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- And we will sit upon the rocks,
- Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
- By shallow rivers, to whose falls
- Melodious birds sing madrigals.
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- And I will make thee beds of roses,
- And a thousand fragrant posies;
- A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
- Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle;
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- A gown made of the finest wool
- Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
- Fair-lined slippers for the cold,
- With buckles of the purest gold;
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- A belt of straw and ivy-buds,
- With coral clasps and amber studs:
- An if these pleasures may thee move,
- Come live with me, and be my love.
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- The shepherd-swains shall dance and sing
- For they delight each May morning:
- If these delights thy mind may move,
- Then live with me, and be my love.
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