Quote of the Day (Robert Herrick, on the Maypole and Its Creator)

“The May-pole is up,

       Now give me the cup,

I'll drink to the garlands around it ;

       But first unto those

       Whose hands did compose

The glory of flowers that crown'd it.”—English poet  and cleric Robert Herrick (1591-1674), “The May-Pole,” from The Poems of Robert Herrick, edited by John Masefield (1906)