The Cherry
Richard Allison
c.1570 to c.1615
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There is a garden in her face,
Where roses ______ white lilies grow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
______ all pleasant fruits do grow;
There cherries grow that ______ may buy
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.
Those ______ fairly do enclose
Of orient pearl a double row,
Which, when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow;
Yet them no peer nor prince may ______
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.
Her eyes like ______ watch them still,
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threatening with piercing frowns to kill
All that approach ______ eye or hand
These sacred cherries to come nigh,
______ cherry ripe themselves do cry.