Gay as all nature at the morning smile,

Those hues with pleasance on her lips combine;

Her lips more red than summer evening's skies,

Or Phœbus rising in a frosty morn;

Her breast more white than snow in fields that lies,

Or lily lambs that never have been shorn,

Swelling like bubbles in a boiling well,

Or new-burst brooklets gentling whispering in the dell,


"Brown as the filbert dropping from the shell,