A thought

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past.

- Anne Lamott

Poetry Month: Day 10

Anonymous. 1604

67. Sister, Awake! Thomas Bateson’s First Set of English Madrigals

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,	5
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,	10
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the Park a-maying!