The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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SONNET VI. THE RETURN OF LAURA.
As when to one who long hath watch'd, the mornAdvancing slow forewarns th'approach of day,
(What time the young and flow'ry kirtled May
Decks the green hedge and dewy grass unshorn
With cowslips pale, and many a whitening thorn),
And now the sun comes forth with level ray
Gilding the high wood top and mountain grey,
And as he climbs, the meadows 'gins adorn:
The rivers glisten to the dancing beam,
Th'awaken'd birds begin their amorous strain,
And hill and vale with joy and fragrance teem;
Such is the sight of Thee; thy wish'd return
To eyes like mine that long have wak'd to mourn,
That long have watch'd for light and wept in vain.
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