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Poem by Eleanor Farjeon


The Happy Shepherd


      (Old Love-Lilt)

Hither when I see to stray
        Her pink dress
  With her flock round it prest
As she were a rose in snow:
  Then my heart within my breast
Like a lamb to and fro
On a hill of green doth play
        For happiness.

Meward when I hear her sing
        And impress
  All sweet airs that do flow
Round her head with airs more sweet:
  Little songs my heart doth blow,
Gay and glad, half-complete,
Like the snatches piped by spring
        For happiness.



Eleanor Farjeon


Eleanor Farjeon's other poems:
  1. Spring-Dawn
  2. The Moral
  3. Sonnets. 1. Man Cannot Be a Sophist to His Heart
  4. Wild Hyacinth
  5. Sonnets. 15. Farewell, you children that I might have borne


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