Shepherdess Fair
O shepherdess fair, the flocks you keep
Are dreams and desires and tears and sleep.
O shepherdess brown, O shepherdess fair,
Where are my flocks you have in care?
My wonderful, white, wide-pasturing sheep
Of dream and desire and tears and sleep?
Many the flocks, but small the care
You give to their keeping, O shepherdess fair!
O shepherdess gay, your flocks have fed
By the iris pool, by the saffron bed,
Till now by noon they have wandered far,
And you have forgotten where they are!
O shepherdess fair, O shepherdess wild,
Full wise are your flocks, but you a child!
You shall not be chid if you let them stray.
In your own wild way, in your own child way,
You will call them all back at the close of day.
Are dreams and desires and tears and sleep.
O shepherdess brown, O shepherdess fair,
Where are my flocks you have in care?
My wonderful, white, wide-pasturing sheep
Of dream and desire and tears and sleep?
Many the flocks, but small the care
You give to their keeping, O shepherdess fair!
O shepherdess gay, your flocks have fed
By the iris pool, by the saffron bed,
Till now by noon they have wandered far,
And you have forgotten where they are!
O shepherdess fair, O shepherdess wild,
Full wise are your flocks, but you a child!
You shall not be chid if you let them stray.
In your own wild way, in your own child way,
You will call them all back at the close of day.
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