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The Bibelot
VOLUME I
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From The Bibelot, A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known, Volume I, Number III, Testimonial Edition, Edited and Originally Published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine; Wm. Wise & Co.; New York; 1895; p. 74.
“Songs in the manner of the early French pastoral. These were fashionable at a remote period in all parts of Europe. Their point is mainly this: A man of birth and education, generally a dweller in the town, goes abroad into the fields, lured by fair spring weather, and makes loved among trees to a country wench.”
THERE went out in the dawning light
A little rustic maiden;
Her flock so white, her crook so slight,
With fleecy new wool laden.
Small is the flock, and there you’ll see
The she-ass and the wether;
This goat’s a he, and that’s a she,
The bull-calf and the heifer.
She looked upon the green sward, where
A student lay at leisure:
“What do you there, young sir, so fair?”
“Come, play with me, my treasure!”