Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
Stay, stay
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to evensong,
And, having pray'd together, we             
Will go with you along.

We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die,
As your hours, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer's rain,
Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
Ne'er to be found again.

First, April, she with mellow showers
Opens the way for early flowers,

Then after her comes smiling May
In a more rich and sweet array,

Next enters June and brings us more
Gems than those two that went before,

Then (lastly,) July comes and she
More wealth brings in than all those three;

April! May! June! July!

Here the strong mallow strikes her slimy root,
Here the dull night-shade hangs her deadly fruit;

On hills of dust the henbane's faded green,
And pencill'd flower of sickly scent is seen;

Here on its wiry stem, in rigid bloom,
Grows the salt lavender that lacks perfume.

At the wall's base the fiery nettle springs,
With fruit globose and fierce with poison'd stings;

In every chink delights the fern to grow,
With glossy leaf and tawny bloom below:

The few dull flowers that o'er the place are spread
Partake the nature of their fenny bed.

These, with our sea-weeds, rolling up and down,
Form the contracted Flora of our town.

When once the sun sinks in the west,
And dew-drops pearl the Evening's breast;
Almost as pale as moonbeams are,
Or its companionable star,
The Evening Primrose opes anew
Its delicate blossoms to the dew;

And hermit-like, shunning the light,
Wastes its fair bloom upon the Night;
Who, blindfold to its fond caresses,
Knows not the beauty he possesses.
Thus it blooms on while Night is by;
When Day looks out with open eye,
'Bashed at the gaze it cannot shun,
It faints, and withers, and is gone.

There was an old man lived out in the wood,
And his trade was a-cutting of broom, green broom,
He had but one son without thought without good
Who lay in his bed till 't was noon, bright noon.

The old man awoke one morning and spoke,
He swore he would fire the room, that room,
If his John would not rise and open his eyes,
And away to the wood to cut broom, green broom.

So Johnny arose and slipp'd on his clothes
And away to the wood to cut broom, green broom,
He sharpen'd his knives, and for once he contrives
To cut a great bundle of broom, green broom.

When Johnny pass'd under a Lady's fine house,
Pass'd under a Lady's fine room, fine room,
She call'd to her maid: "Go fetch me," she said,
"Go fetch me the boy that sells broom, green broom!"

When Johnny came into the Lady's fine house,
And stood in the Lady's fine room, fine room,
"Young Johnny" she said, "Will you give up your trade
And marry a lady in bloom, full bloom?"

Johnny gave his consent, and to church they both went,
And he wedded the Lady in bloom, full bloom;
At market and fair, all folks do declare,
There's none like the Boy that sold broom, green broom.

Liber generationis Jesu Christi filii David filii Abraham.

Abraham genuit Isaac, Isaac autem genuit Iacob, Iacob autem genuit Iudam, et fratres ejus.

Et post transmigrationem Babylonis Iechonias genuit Salathiel.

Salathiel autem genuit Zorobabel.
Zorobabel autem genuit Abiud.

Abiud autem genuit Eliacim.
Eliacim autem genuit Azor.

Azor autem genuit Sadoc.
Sadoc autem genuit Achim.

Achim autem genuit Eliud.
Eliud autem genuit Eleazar.

Eleazar autem genuit Mathan.
Mathan autem genuit Iacob.

Iacob autem genuit Ioseph virum Mariae,
de qua natus est Iesus qui vocatur Christus.

Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signo:
Quem osculatus fuero, ipse est, tenete eum:
Hoc malum fecit signum, qui per osculum ad implevit homicidium.

Infelix praetermisit pretium sanguinis, et in fine laquaeo se suspendit.

Bonum erat illi, si natus non fuisset homo ille.

Infelix praetermisit pretium sanguinis, et in fine laquaeo se suspendit.

Dixit Dominus Domino meo:
Aede a dextris meis, donec ponam inimicos tuosscabellum pedum tuorum.

Virgam virtutis tuae emittet Dominus ex Sion: dominare in medio
inimicorum tuorum.

Tecum principium in die virtutis tuae in splendoribus sanctorum:
ex utero, ante luciferum, genui te.

Juravit Dominus et non poenitebit eum:
tu es sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech.

Dominus a dextris tuis:
confregit in die irae suae reges.

The First Day

Solo
In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

Chorus
And the spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters.

Solo
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Chorus
And God saw the light, that it was good:
and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day,
and the darkness he called Night.

And the evening and the morning were the first day.

The Second Day

Solo
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Chorus
And God made the firmament,
and divided the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the firmament:
And it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven.

And the evening and the morning were the second day.

The Third Day

Solo
And God said,
Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear:

Chorus
And it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth;
and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:
And God saw that it was good.

Solo and Chorus
And God said,
Let the earth bring forth grass,

Solo
the herb yielding seed,
and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind,
whose seed is in itself,
upon the earth:
And it was so.

Chorus
And the earth brought forth grass,
and herb yielding seed after its kind,
and the tree yielding fruit,
whose seed was in itself,
after its kind:
And God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

The Fourth Day

Solo
And God said,
Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night;
and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years
And let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night
and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days, and years:
And let there be lights

And God made two great lights; 
the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night:
he made the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth,
and to rule over the day and over the night,
and to divide the day from the darkness:
And God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

Chorus
Lights!

Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night
and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years
And let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night
and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years
And let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth
And it was so.

The Fifth Day

Chorus
And God said
Let the waters bring forth abundantly
the moving creature that hath life,
and fowl that may fly above the earth
in the open firmament of heaven.

And God created great whales,
and ev’ry living creature that moveth,
which the waters brought forth abundantly,
after their kind,
and ev’ry winged fowl after his kind:
And God saw that it was good.
and God blessed them, saying,
Be fruitful and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas,
and let fowl multiply in the earth.

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

The Sixth Day

Solo
And God said,
Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind,
cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind:
and it was so.

Chorus
And God said,
Let the earth bring forth grass. 
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind,
and cattle after their kind,
and ev’ry thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind:

Solo and Chorus
And God saw that it was good.

Chorus
And God said,
Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness:
and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle,
and over all the earth,
and over ev’ry creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Solo and Chorus
So God created man in his own image,

Chorus
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
And God blessed them,
and God said unto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air,
and over ev’ry living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Behold...

Solo
And God said,
Behold, I have given you ev’ry herb bearing seed,
which is upon the face of all the earth,
and ev’ry tree,
in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;
To you it shall be for food. 
And to ev’ry beast of the earth,
and to ev’ry fowl of the air,
and to ev’ry thing that creepeth upon the earth,
wherein there is life,
I have given ev’ry green herb for food:

Chorus
And it was so
And God saw ev’ry thing that he had made,
and, behold, it was very good.

And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

The Seventh Day

Chorus
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,
and all the hosts of them
And on the seventh day God ended
his work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day
from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:
because that in it he had rested
from all his work which God created and made.

Solo
These are the generations of the heavens
and of the earth when they were created,
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
and ev’ry plant of the field before it was in the earth,
and ev’ry herb of the field before it grew:

Solo and Chorus
For the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth,
and there was not a man to till the ground.

The Seventh Day

Chorus
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,
and all the hosts of them
And on the seventh day God ended
his work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day
from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:
because that in it he had rested
from all his work which God created and made.

Solo
These are the generations of the heavens
and of the earth when they were created,
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
and ev’ry plant of the field before it was in the earth,
and ev’ry herb of the field before it grew:

Solo and Chorus
For the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth,
and there was not a man to till the ground.