The Poetical Works of Anna Seward With Extracts from her Literary Correspondence. Edited by Walter Scott ... In Three Volumes |
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[The, mute grey fields, and leafless bowers]
The, mute grey fields, and leafless bowers
Now vainly wait the vernal hours;
Yet vernal hours to them will come,
Awake the song, and ope the bloom.
Now vainly wait the vernal hours;
Yet vernal hours to them will come,
Awake the song, and ope the bloom.
To me more dear than vernal hours
To mute grey fields and leafless bowers,
Were Damon's accents, Damon's strain,
But Damon speaks, nor sings again!
To mute grey fields and leafless bowers,
Were Damon's accents, Damon's strain,
But Damon speaks, nor sings again!
On him hath closed the silent door
Shall never, never open more,
And on my heart, by nought consoled,
The trembling hand of Hope is cold!
And bleak fields suit, and suits this iron sky
The lonely spirit of departed joy.
Shall never, never open more,
And on my heart, by nought consoled,
The trembling hand of Hope is cold!
And bleak fields suit, and suits this iron sky
The lonely spirit of departed joy.
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