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LOVE AND LEARNING:
A Midsummer Sonnet
In Winter gifts at Learning's feet we fling:
The sunshine finds us, but through poets' pages;
The stars gleam, but the stars of bygone ages;
Spenser wreathes Winter with the bloom of Spring.
The birds are silent, but the poets sing:
In Shelley's verse the undying Summer glows;
At Keats' touch smiles again the frost-nipped rose,
And Virgil rules mid-winter like a king.
The sunshine finds us, but through poets' pages;
The stars gleam, but the stars of bygone ages;
Spenser wreathes Winter with the bloom of Spring.
The birds are silent, but the poets sing:
In Shelley's verse the undying Summer glows;
At Keats' touch smiles again the frost-nipped rose,
And Virgil rules mid-winter like a king.
Crowned with a wreath of ferns and golden flowers
To our pale star bright joyous Love returns,
As if his radiant reign were but begun.
Let cold-browed Learning sway the wintry hours!
But Love, through whose wild heart June's rapture burns,
Leaps up to greet the summer and the sun.
To our pale star bright joyous Love returns,
As if his radiant reign were but begun.
Let cold-browed Learning sway the wintry hours!
But Love, through whose wild heart June's rapture burns,
Leaps up to greet the summer and the sun.
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