TESTO DEL LIED

"Welcome, maids-of-honour"
di Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Welcome, maids-of-honour!
You do bring
In the spring,
And wait upon her.
She has virgins many,
Fresh and fair;
Yet you are
More sweet than any.
You're the maiden posies,
And so grac'd
To be plac'd
'Fore damask ross.
Yet, though thus respected,
By-and-by
Ye do lie,
Poor girls, neglected.