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The Apron of Flowers

by Robert Herrick, 1648

To gather flowers Sappha went,
  And homeward she did bring
Within her lawny continent
  The treasure of the spring.

She smiling blush’d, and blushing smil’d,
  And sweetly blushing thus,
She look’d as she’d been got with child
  By young Favonius.

Her apron gave, as she did pass,
  An odour more divine,
More pleasing, too, than ever was
  The lap of Proserpine.

Published in Hesperides
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