SWEET WILLIAM. 
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THE GILLY FLOWER. 
DRAYTON. 
The curious choice clove July flower, 
Whose kinds, hight the carnation, 
For sweetness of most sovereign power 
Shall help my wreath to fashion; 
Whose sundry colours of one kind, 
First from one root derived, 
Them in their several suits I’ll bind, 
My garland so contrived. 
SWEET WILLIAM. 
Sweet little English flower, that bear’st 
The name our Shakspeare bore, 
Fashion has set thy claims aside ; 
So worthy deemed of yore ! 
In cottage garden only- now, 
Sweet William, art thou found, 
Where southernwood and gilly flowers, 
And old-world buds abound. 
Alas ! thy meaning.too is changed, 
It does not now express 
Man’s gallantry, as once it did, 
But modern days’ finesse. 
