The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/The Weeping Cherry
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23. THE WEEPING CHERRY.
I saw a cherry weep, and why?
Why wept it? but for shame
Because my Julia's lip was by,
And did out-red the same.
But, pretty fondling, let not fall
A tear at all for that:
Which rubies, corals, scarlets, all
For tincture wonder at.