<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342029" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>May Janet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">“STAND UP, stand up, thou May Janet,<br>And go to the wars with me.”<br>He’s drawn her by both hands<br>With her face against the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“He that strews red shall gather white,<br>He that sows white reap red,<br>Before your face and my daughter’s<br>Meet in a marriage-bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Gold coin shall grow in the yellow field,<br>Green corn in the green sea-water,<br>And red fruit grow of the rose’s red,<br>Ere your fruit grow in her.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“But I shall have her by land,” he said,<br>“Or I shall have her by sea,<br>Or I shall have her by strong treason<br>And no grace go with me.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her father’s drawn her by both hands,<br>He’s rent her gown from her,<br>He’s ta’en the smock round her body,<br>Cast in the sea-water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The captain’s drawn her by both sides<br>Out of the fair green sea;<br>“Stand up, stand up, thou May Janet,<br>And come to the war with me.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first town they came to<br>There was a blue bride-chamber;<br>He clothed her on with silk<br>And belted her with amber.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The second town they came to<br>The bridesmen feasted knee to knee;<br>He clothed her on with silver,<br>A stately thing to see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The third town they came to<br>The bridesmaids all had gowns of gold;<br>He clothed her on with purple,<br>A rich thing to behold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The last town they came to<br>He clothed her white and red,<br>With a green flag either side of her<br>And a gold flag overhead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Algernon+Charles+Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342029" data-title="May Janet de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="“STAND UP, stand up, thou May Janet, And go to the wars with me.” He’s drawn her by both hands With her face against the sea. “He that strews red shall gather white, He that sows white reap red, Before your face and my daughter’s Meet i..."></div> </div> </div>

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