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All work is over at the farm	A
And men and maids are ripe for glee	B
Love slips among them sly and warm	C
Or calls them to the chestnut tree	B
As Colin looks askance at Jane	D
He draws his hand across his mouth	E
She understands the rustic pain	D
And something of the tender south	E
About her milkmaid beauty flits	F
Her dress of lilac print for guide	G
Draws shepherd Colin where she sits	F
Who faring to her lovely side	G
To snatch his evening pension tries	F
But skimming like a bird from clutch	H
The maid escapes his Cupid touch	H
And speeding down a passage flies	F
Not fast enough to cheat his eyes	F
Ah sweet lip ways and sweet lip days	F
And sweetheart captures of the waist	I
How swiftly still the virgin runs	F
She's sure at last to be embraced	I
Now Colin fires at kiss delayed	J
And faster flits the red stone floor	K
Till Fortune yields the tricky maid	J
A captive at the pantry door	K
	-
The farmer with his fifty years	F
Is not too old to join the fun	L
He pulls the milkmaids' pinky ears	F
And bids a likely stripling run	L
To find the fiddlers for a dance	F
And in the cherry orchard there	M
A tune shall mingle with romance	F
And love be brave in open air	M
	-
The village wakens to the bliss	F
The crones and gaffers crawl to see	F
The country game of step and kiss	F
Beneath the laden cherry tree	F
The chairs and benches now are set	N
Old John is wheedled from his pet	N
The cider cup with beady eyes	F
Responds to winkings of the skies	F
The farmer burly in his chair	M
Now claps for ev'ry fond and fair	M
To foot it on the grassy patch	O
While rustic violinists snatch	O
From out those varnished birds of wood	P
A tune to jink it in the blood	Q
Now Jane and Colin in a trice	F
Float sweetly round not less than thrice	F
Before their motion draws a pair	M
To revel with the dancing air	M
The thrush that on his velvet wipes	F
His juicy bill protesting pipes	F
And somewhat as a piccolo	R
Doth race the concord of the bow	S
A virgin yonder by the tree	F
Rejects a mate who saucily	R
Would press if she might only start	T
Her modest homespun to his heart	T
Ah sweet lip ways and sweet lip days	F
And sweetheart captures of the waist	I
Though like a finch the maiden flies	F
She's sure at last to be embraced	I
	-
The orchard now is in full bloom	U
With rosy cheek and snowdrop throat	V
The stars invade the growing gloom	U
And rarelier sounds the blackbird's note	V
But in this dewy little park	W
Love burns the brighter for the dark	W
And till he use a stricter rule	R
Dear Cicely's cheek shall never cool	R
The fiddlers storm a tomboy tune	X
The shepherds closer clasp the girls	F
While skirts the more desert the shoon	X
And rebel leap the loely curls	F
The farmer glows within his chair	M
And muses on the dancing time	Y
When he and she a matchless pair	M
Were warm and nimble in their prime	Y
God bless the man who duller grown	X
Can feel the younger heaven anew	X
By granting to his maids and men	X
A romp by starlight in the dew	X
Ah greenwood ways and greenwood days	F
And soft pursuings of the waist	I
The cheek must yellow out of praise	F
And bent be those who once embraced	I
	-
And now they pant against the trees	F
And using darkness for their plan	X
Girls loose the garters at their knees	F
And mend the clumsiness of man	X
One virgin thankful for the dance	F
About the music shyly trips	F
Her Love's a fiddler and her love	Z
Pops fruit in Paganini's lips	F
Or finding on the starlit tree	F
The wife and husband cherry there	M
She hangs the couple at his cheek	A2
And hides the stalk with tufts of hair	M
The girls are at the cider cup	B2
And shepherds tilt the yellow base	F
Until a giddy amber flood	Q
Runs kissing over Cicely's face	F
And Dora's upper lip doth shine	X
With winking beads of apple wine	X
The fiddlers scrape a farewell tune	X
The dancers dwindle in the dusk	C2
While summer puffs of easy wind	D2
Bring hints of cottage garden musk	C2
	-
And thus the revel dearly ends	F
With milkmaid's palm in shepherd's hand	E2
And lovers grow from only friends	F
Where plum and pear and apple stand	E2
Ah sweet lip ways and sweet lip days	F
And sweetheart captures of the waist	I
How fast so e'er the virgin flies	F
She's sure at last to be embraced	I

Norman Rowland Gale

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