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THE APRON OF FLOWERS

by Robert Herrick

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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