The Simplers. (XVIIth. Century.)
Here's pennyroyal and marigolds!
Come, buy my nettle-tops.
Here's water-cress and scurvy-grass!
Come buy my sage of virtue, ho!
Come buy my wormwood and mugwort!
Here's all fine herbs of every sort:
Here's southernwood that's very good,
Dandelion and house-leek;
Here's dragon's tongue and wood-sorrel,
With bear's-foot and horehound.
Lazy cattle wading in the water
Where the ripples dimple round the buttercups of gold.
Whitcomb Riley.
When the dimpled water slippeth,
Full of laughter on its way,