Hunting Song
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Zapolya, Act IV. Scene 2.
Up, up! ye dames, and lasses gay!
To the meadows trip away.
'Tis you must tend the flocks this morn,
And scare the small birds from the corn.
Not a soul at home may stay:
For the shepherds must go
With lance and bow
To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.
Leave the hearth and leave the house
To the cricket and the mouse:
Find grannam out a sunny seat,
With babe and lambkin at her feet.
Not a soul at home may stay:
For the shepherds must go
With lance and bow
To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.
1815
Source Book
The Golden Book Of Coleridge
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Copyright 1914
Published by London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
