THE APRON OF FLOWERS

Portrait of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick 1591–1674

To gather flowers, Sappha went, And homeward she did bring Within her lawny continent, The treasure of the Spring.

She smiling blush'd, and blushing smiled, And sweetly blushing thus, She look'd as she'd been got with child By young Favonius.

Her apron gave, as she did pass, An odour more divine, More pleasing too, than ever was The lap of Proserpine.

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