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...growing light, What time the shepherd blowing of his nails, Can neither call it perfect day or night. Here on this mole-hill will I sit me down; To whom...So many weeks ere the poor fools will yean, So many months ere I shall shear the fleece : So many minutes, hours, weeks, months, and years Past over, to...

...quaintly, point by point, How many make the hour full complete, Thereby to see the minutes how they run : How many hours bring about the day, How many days...young; So many weeks ere the poor fools will yean ; l So many years ere 1 shall sheer the fleece : So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years....

...* 0 God ! methinks, it were a happy life2, 1 To be no better than a homely swain; * To sit upon as hill, as I do now, • To carve out dials quaintly,...contemplate; * So many hours must I sport myself; ff So many days my ewes have been with young; * So many weeks ere the poor fools will yean ; * So many...

...How many make the hour full complete, How many hours hring ahout the day, How many days will fmish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live....hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have heen with young ; So many weeks ere the poor fools will yean ; So many years ere I shall shear the...

...thence. Would I were dead, if God's good will were 90, For what is in this world but grief and wo ? 0 God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better...So many weeks ere the poor fools will yean, So many months ere I shall shear the fleece : So many minutes, hours, weeks, months, and years Past over, to...

...finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the time : So many hours must I tend my flock, So many hours...So many weeks ere the poor fools will yean, So many months ere I shall shear the fleece ; So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, Passed over...

...many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must 1 tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest;...ere the poor fools will yean; So many years ere I sball shear the fleece; So minat.es, hours, days, weeks, mouths, and years, Pass'd over to the end...