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(my) ' The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd '

Since all the world and love is one  
and truth issues from your glib tongue,  
and maiden's wiles your chance improve  
I'll live with you and be your love.  
 
And I shall dance and your words sing
for your delight, each gay morning,
and be your muse though nag you so
you Will outwrite that upstart crow!

But I'd rather have a divan bed
than those roses that you have said,
you forgot the thorns, I suppose,
they'd not do much for our repose...
  
And I'm not sure 'bout those hard rocks  
so pull some wool from your old flock,  
and make with it a seat to sit  
for you and me with sweet comfits.  
   
You need not work on gowns of wool  
for changing clime makes sun not dull,  
and woolen clothes these sceptered isles  
have not been worn for quite a while.  
   
You'll need those buckles made of gold  
to pay the swains, or so I'm told,  
for socialists make wages high  
enough to make the bosses cry.  
   
Those slippers and ivory buds  
kirtle, clasps, belts and amber studs,  
can all be found in cheap shops now  
brought from abroad but God knows how.  
   
And those valleys, groves, hills and fields  
are under concrete roads and sealed,  
thinking on these, I am sore moved...  
to hie me mort to be your love.
Written by Rew
Published | Edited 21st Oct 2023
Author's Note
"The passionate Shepherd to His love"

"Come live with me and be my love
and we will all the pleasures prove
that valleys, folds, hills, and fields
woods or steepy mountains yields..."
by Christopher Marlowe
(1564 - 1593)
"The Passionate Shepherd to his Love"
That poem was ' answered ' by
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1628)
with " The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd "

" If all the world & love were one
And truth in every shepherds tongue
these pretty pleasures might me move
to live with you and be your love "
Clear so far?

So, I'm giving it a go with (my) " The Nymphs Reply to the Passionate Shepherd "

" cheap shops" = dollar store/pound shop.
" hie " to go - at speed
" mort " death
" sore " grieved
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