If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.
Walter Raleigh
Love
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.
Walter Raleigh
The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.