<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539481" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Westwell Downes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Westwell Downes I gan to tread,<br>Where cleanely wynds the greene did sweepe,<br>Methought a landskipp there was spread,<br>Here a bush and there a sheepe:<br> The pleated wrinkles of the face<br> Of wave-swolne earth did lend such grace,<br> As shadowings in Imag'ry<br> Which both deceive and please the eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The sheepe sometymes did tread the maze<br>By often wynding in and in,<br>And sometymes round about they trace<br>Which milkmayds call a Fairie ring:<br> Such semicircles have they runne,<br> Such lynes acrosse so trymly spunne<br> That sheppeards learne whenere they please<br> A new Geometry with ease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The slender food upon the downe<br>Is allwayes even, allwayes bare,<br>Which neither spring nor winter's frowne<br>Can ought improve or ought impayre:<br> Such is the barren Eunuches chynne,<br> Which thus doth evermore begynne<br> With tender downe to be orecast<br> Which never comes to haire at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Here and there twoe hilly crests<br>Amiddst them hugg a pleasant greene,<br>And these are like twoe swelling breasts<br>That close a tender fall betweene.<br> Here would I sleepe, or read, or pray<br> From early morne till flight of day:<br> But harke! a sheepe-bell calls mee upp,<br> Like Oxford colledge bells, to supp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Strode">William Strode</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=539481" data-title="On Westwell Downes de William Strode" data-description="When Westwell Downes I gan to tread, Where cleanely wynds the greene did sweepe, Methought a landskipp there was spread, Here a bush and there a sheepe: The pleated wrinkles of the face Of wave-swolne earth did lend such grace, As shadowings in..."></div> </div> </div>

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