JULIA.

Some asked me where the rubies grew,

And nothing did I say,

But with my finger pointed to

The lips of Julia.

Some asked how pearls did grow, and where;

Then spake I to my girl,

To part her lips and show me there

The quarelets of pearl.

One asked me where the roses grew;

I bade him not go seek,

But forthwith bade my Julia show

A bud in either cheek.

Robert Herrick.