All the sun and all the shower!
And I suffered many losses; and my first was of the bower.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
[52] lusus: a sport, a freak.
Echo and the Ferry
Ay, Oliver! I was but seven, and he was eleven;
He looked at me pouting and rosy. I blushed where I stood.
They had told us to play in the orchard (and I only seven!
A small guest at the farm); but he said, “Oh, a girl was no good,”