Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,  
  Full and fair ones; come and buy.  
  If so be you ask me where  
  They do grow, I answer: There,  
  Where my Julia's lips do smile;  
  There's the land, or cherry-isle,  
  Whose plantations fully show  
  All the year where cherries grow.
Select poems from the Hesperides: or, works both human and divine (ed. 1810)























