Vulcan's Song: In Making Of The Arrows

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MY shag-hair Cyclops, come, let's ply
Our Lemnian hammers lustily.
  By my wife's sparrows,
  I swear these arrows
  Shall singing fly
Through many a wanton's eye.

These headed are with golden blisses,
These silver ones feathered with kisses,
  But this of lead
  Strikes a clown dead,
  When in a dance
  He falls in a trance,
To see his black-brow lass not buss him,
And then whines out for death t'untruss him.
So, so : our work being done, let's play :
Holiday !  boys, cry holiday !

© John Lyly