{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/boo/boo14.htm","path":"cfu/boo/boo14.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/boo/boo14.htm","text":"The Book of Odes, by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1908]\nDeep in the grass there lies a dead gazelle,\n The tall white grass enwraps her where she fell.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With sweet thoughts natural to spring,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A pretty girl goes wandering\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With lover that would lead astray.\nThe little dwarf oaks hide a leafy dell,\n Far in the wilds there lies a dead gazelle;\n The tall white grass enwraps her where she fell,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And beauty, like a gem, doth fling\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bright radiance through the blinds of spring.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"Ah, gently! do not disarray\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My kerchief! gently, pray!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nor make the watch-dog bark\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Under my lattice dark.\"","title":"The Book of Odes: Maytime","type":"page"}