Poems and Essays By the late William Caldwell Roscoe. (Edited with a Prefatory Memoir, by his Brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton) |
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AT THE SAME TIME.
Sweet fragrance and soft springtide air,
Green bursting leaves, most fresh, most fair,
Your charms show bright in wood and plain;
But, oh, for me, in vain—in vain!
Green bursting leaves, most fresh, most fair,
Your charms show bright in wood and plain;
But, oh, for me, in vain—in vain!
For this warm breath can never start
The sap of hope in my dead heart;
This vital season hath no spell
In me a bud of joy to swell.
The sap of hope in my dead heart;
This vital season hath no spell
In me a bud of joy to swell.
The icy season melts apace
From the young sun's celestial face;
Far in the future summer shows,
And farther golden autumn glows.
From the young sun's celestial face;
Far in the future summer shows,
And farther golden autumn glows.
But the cold passion of my grief
Must last and never find relief;
Fresh springs renew the rolling year,
But winter sits eternal here.
Must last and never find relief;
Fresh springs renew the rolling year,
But winter sits eternal here.
1846
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