Go, and Catch a Falling Star

Go and catch a falling star ,

Get with child a mandrake root ,

Tell me where all past years are ,

Or who cleft the devil’s foot ,

Teach me to hear mermaids singing ,

Or to keep off envy’s stinging ,

And find

What wind

Serves to advance an honest mind .

If thou be’st born to strange sights ,

Things invisible to see ,

Ride ten thousand days and nights ,

Till age snow white hairs on thee ,

Thou , when thou return’st , wilt tell me ,

All strange wonders that befell thee ,

And swear

No where

Lives a woman true , and fair .

If thou find’st one , let me know ,

Such a pilgrimage were sweet ;

Yet do not , I would not go ,

Though at next door we might meet,

Though she were true , when you met her ,

And last , till you write your letter ,

Yet she

Will be

False , ere I come , to two , or three .