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A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for childrenA book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children
A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for children by J.B.A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.
London: printed for N.P., 1686
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A BOOK FOR Boys and Girls, &c. › Poem 26: XXVI. Upon the promising Fruitfulness of a Tree.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
XXVI. Upon the promising Fruitfulness of a Tree.
A Comely sight indeed it is to see, A World of Blossoms on an Apple-tree. Yet far more comely would this Tree appear, If all its dainty blooms young Apples were. ⟨p. 34⟩But how much more might one upon it see, If all would hang there till they ripe should be. But most of all in Beauty 'twould abound, If then none worm-eaten could there be found. But we, alas! Do commonly behold Blooms fall apace, if mornings be but cold. They (too) which hang till they young Apples are, By blasting Winds and Vermin take despair. Store that do hang, while almost ripe, we see By blustering Winds are shaken from the Tree. So that of many only some there be, That grow till they come to Maturity.
A Comely sight indeed it is to see, A World of Blossoms on an Apple-tree. Yet far more comely would this Tree appear, If all its dainty blooms young Apples were. ⟨p. 34⟩But how much more might one upon it see, If all would hang there till they ripe should be. But most of all in Beauty 'twould abound, If then none worm-eaten could there be found. But we, alas! Do commonly behold Blooms fall apace, if mornings be but cold. They (too) which hang till they young Apples are, By blasting Winds and Vermine take despair. Store that do hang, while almost ripe, we see By blustring Winds are shaken from the Tree. So that of many only some there be, That grow till they come to Maturity.