I CALL AND I CALL.
by Robert Herrick


I CALL, I call : who do ye call ?
The maids to catch this cowslip ball :
But since these cowslips fading be,
Troth, leave the flowers and, maids, take me.
Yet if that neither you will do,
Speak but the word and I'll take you.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 139.


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