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Rainbow gold; poems old and new selected for boys and girls

Part 4 — SISTER, AWAKE! (Old English Song)

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Sister, awake! close not your eyes! The day her light discloses, And the bright morning doth arise Out of her bed of roses. See the clear sun, the world’s bright eye, In at our window peeping: Lo, how he blusheth to espy Us idle wenches sleeping! Therefore awake! make haste, I say, And let us, without staying, All in our gowns of green so gay Into the Park a-maying! Author Unknown

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