paroles de chanson To Meadows: Ye Have Been Fresh and Green - Robert Herrick

Ye have been fresh and green
Yet have been fill'd with flowers
And ye the walks have been
Where maids have spent their hours

You have beheld how they
With wicker arks did come
To kiss and bear away
The richer cowslips home

You've heard them sweetly sing
And seen them in a round
Each virgin like a spring
With honeysuckles crown'd

But now we see none here
Whose silv'ry feet did tread
And with dishevell'd hair
Adorn'd this smoother mead

Like unthrifts, having spent
Your stock and needy grown
You're left here to lament
Your poor estates, alone