...as sparkling, and spirits as light, Our next merry meeting ! A bumper — good night ! CHAPTER II. " The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose." 'Tis Flora's holiday, and in ancient times the fair goddess kept it with joyous festivity. Ah ! those...

...the bright Morning Star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail ! bounteous May !" This was in the holy verse of Milton ; take other passages, of a still sweeter character, in prose,...

...favourite, and among other extracts from him, was the sonnet in the Nativity, on May Morning : — " Now the bright Morning Star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail ! bounteous...

...favourite, and among other extracts from him, was the sonnet in the Nativity, on May Morning : — " Now the bright Morning Star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail ! bounteous...

...bright morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and brings with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail I beauteous May, that doth inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire; Meads and groves are of thy dressing,...

...Burns, and with the whole of which the slenderest excuse will justify us in adorning our pages. " Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail! bounteous...

...spirits as light, Our next merry meeting ! A bumper — good night ! / 75 r '• ' * "' CHAPTER II. " The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose." 'Tis Flora's holiday, and in ancient times the goddess kept it with joyous festivity. Ah ! those ancient...

...Burns, and with the whole of which the slenderest excuse will justify us in adorning our pages. " Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail! bounteous...

...the bright morning star, day's harbinger. Comes dancing from the cast, and leads with ber The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Bail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy...

...orchards to the roseate morn Unfold their bloom, in heaven's own colours dyed. MICKLE. THE flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip and the pale Primrose. MILTON. WHERE the bee sucks, there lurk 1 ; In a Cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry....