Swimming and weeping,
So wet, so tender,
Sometimes the scorning of’t
Others the sorrow of’t,
Lifting so joyfully,
Drooping so coyly.
2. My first shouts freely in,
My second’s a pretty letter,
My third a valiant instrument.
But my fourth, alas,
Swimming and weeping,
So wet, so tender,
Sometimes the scorning of’t
Others the sorrow of’t,
Lifting so joyfully,
Drooping so coyly.
2. My first shouts freely in,
My second’s a pretty letter,
My third a valiant instrument.
But my fourth, alas,