Robert Herrick - FAREWELL FROST, OR WELCOME SPRING

Robert Herrick - FAREWELL FROST, OR WELCOME SPRING

Fled are the frosts, and now the fields appear br Reclothed in fresh and verdant diaper; br Thaw'd are the snows; and now the lusty Spring br Gives to each mead a neat enamelling; br The palms put forth their gems, and every tree br Now swaggers in her leafy gallantry. br The while the Daulian minstrel sweetly sings br With warbling notes her Terean sufferings. br --What gentle winds perspire! as if here br Never had been the northern plunderer br To strip the trees and fields, to their distress, br Leaving them to a pitied nakedness. br And look how when a frantic storm doth tear br A stubborn oak or holm, long growing there,-- br But lull'd to calmness, then succeeds a breeze br That scarcely stirs the nodding leaves of trees; br So when this war, which tempest-like doth spoil br Our salt, our corn, our honey, wine, and oil, br Falls to a temper, and doth mildly cast br His inconsiderate frenzy off, at last, br The gentle dove may, when these turmoils cease, br Bring in her bill, once more, the branch of Peace.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-07

Duration: 01:26

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