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The
Book of the Rose
by
Charles G.D. Roberts
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SHEPHERDESS
FAIR
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O
shepherdess fair, the flocks you keep
Are dreams and desires and tears and sleep.
O
shepherdess brown, O shepherdess fair,
Where are my flocks you have in care?
My
wonderful, white, wide-pasturing sheep
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Of
dream and desire and tears and sleep?
Many
the flocks, but small the care
You give to their keeping, O shepherdess fair!
O
shepherdess gay, your flocks have fed
By the iris pool, by the saffron bed,
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Till now by noon they have wandered far,
And you have forgotten where they are!
O
shepherdess fair, O shepherdess wild,
Full wise are your flocks, but you a child!
You
shall not be chid if you let them stray.
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In
your own wild way, in your own child way,
You will call them all back at the close of day. |
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