47. THE PARCÆ; OR, THREE DAINTY DESTINIES: THE ARMILLET
Three lovely sisters working were,
As they were closely set,
Of soft and dainty maidenhair
A curious armillet.
I, smiling, asked them what they did,
Fair Destinies all three,
Who told me they had drawn a thread
Of life, and 'twas for me.
They show'd me then how fine 'twas spun,
And I reply'd thereto,—
"I care not now how soon 'tis done,
Or cut, if cut by you".
48. SORROWS SUCCEED.
When one is past, another care we have:
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
49. CHERRY-PIT.
Julia and I did lately sit
Playing for sport at cherry-pit:
She threw; I cast; and, having thrown,
I got the pit, and she the stone.
Cherry-pit, a game in which cherry-stones were pitched into a small hole.
50. TO ROBIN REDBREAST.
Laid out for dead, let thy last kindness be
With leaves and moss-work for to cover me:
