

WEEPING WILLOW. 

Cuddy—Herdsman, Pll be ruled by thee,— 
There liees grief and willowe-tree ; 
Henceforth I will do as they, 
And love a new love every day. 
THE WILLOW. 
SHAKSPEARE. 
My mother had a maid called Barbara : 
She was in love ; but he she loved proved mad, 
And did forsake her. She had a song of “ Willow.” 
An old thing *twas, but it expressed her fortune, 
And she died singing it. 
THE WILLOW. 
SHAKSPEARE. 
THERE is a willow grows aslant the brook, 
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; 
There. with fantastic garlands did she * come, 
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, 
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, 
But our cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them ; 
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds 
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; 
When down her weedy trophies and herself 
Fell in the weeping brook. 

* Ophelia. 


