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• Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again.
  -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- To Mistress Susanna Southwell...
• Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing
  To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring....
• There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
  -- Richte...
• Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. -- Thomas Tusse
• But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed
  Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever....
• And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goe
  like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air....
• April showers bring May flowe
• Do you like good music? That sweet Soul Music. -- Atlantic Record