Quotation by William Drummond, of Hawthornden

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My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow
With thy green mother in some shady grove,
When immelodious winds but made thee move,
And birds their ramage did on thee bestow.

William Drummond, of Hawthornden

William Drummond, of Hawthornden (1585–1649), Scottish poet. My lute, be as thou wast when thou didst grow (l. 1–4). . .

Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.

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