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Spenser tells us in his “Shepherd’s Calendar,’”— 
Youth’s folk now f fiocken everywhere, 
To gather May-baskets and smelling breer 
And home they hasten the posts to ‘dight, 
And all the kirk-pillars ere daylight, 
With hawthorn-buds, and sweet e glantine, 
And garlands of roses, and. sops-in-wine. 
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Herrick, in his “ Hesperides,” has a beautiful idy] 
descriptive of the manner in which maids went 
a-Maying. 

Oh, we will goa -Maying, love, 
A- Maying we will go, 
Beneath the baie swaying, love, 
With eign of scented d snow. 
Laburnum’s golden tresses, ae 
Float in the perfumed air; 
Which heedless their caresses, love, 
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Seeks violets in their lair; 

And with their scents a- -playing, love, 
't gambols to and fro,— 
Where we will go eo Mayig, AOR 
Where we will Maying oc | 
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The beeg are busy humming, love, 
Amid the opening bloo: : 
Foretelling Summer's com ing’, love,— 
Pare ewell to wintry glooms. 
Lhe primrose pale, from ¢ 
Up from the ground now speeds 
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And cows slips slim, ‘mid leafy green 
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L go a-Maying, love, 
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ere we will Mayineg go. ay 
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