I've studied men from my topsy-turvy

It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields!

Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.

First of earthly singers, the sun-loved rill.

See ye not, Courtesy Is the true Alchemy, Turning to gold all it touches and tries?

Into the breast that gives the rose, Shall I with shuddering fall?

For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instils, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which overflows To lift us with him as he goes.