Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump |
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[Humblest among the vernal train]
Humblest among the vernal train,
In giddy Flora's gustful reign,
Uplift, uplift thy timid eyes!
The violet shuns the trying hour,
Soon sheds the rose its fondled flower,
The gaudy tulip flaunts and dies.
In giddy Flora's gustful reign,
Uplift, uplift thy timid eyes!
The violet shuns the trying hour,
Soon sheds the rose its fondled flower,
The gaudy tulip flaunts and dies.
When Autumn mourns his gloomy end,
When rains and howling blasts descend,
When hill and vale and wood are bare,
Before my path thy light I see,
And tho' no other smiles to me,
Thou smilest, here and everywhere.
When rains and howling blasts descend,
When hill and vale and wood are bare,
Before my path thy light I see,
And tho' no other smiles to me,
Thou smilest, here and everywhere.
What name more graceful couldst thou chuse
Than Caledonia's pastoral Muse,
Breath'd in the mellow reed of Burns?
Art thou not proud that name to share
With her from whom, so passing fair,
No heart unconquer'd e'er returns?
Than Caledonia's pastoral Muse,
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Art thou not proud that name to share
With her from whom, so passing fair,
No heart unconquer'd e'er returns?
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