“O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water!
Ye happy mixtures of more happy days.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Stanza 80.
Beppo (1818)
“They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.”
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The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Context: p>A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth,
But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth.The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below;
They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row.They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth;
They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.</p
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