Conversations introducing poetry chiefly on subjects of natural history. For the use of children and young persons. By Charlotte Smith |
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VERSES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING.
As in the woods, where leathery lichen weavesIts wintry web among the sallow leaves,
Which (thro' cold months in whirling eddies blown,)
Decay beneath the branches once their own.
From the brown shelter of their foliage sear,
Spring the young blooms that lead the floral year,
When waked by vernal Suns, the Pilewort dares,
Expand her clouded leaves and shining stars;
And, veins empurpling all her tassels pale,
Bends the soft wind-flower in the vernal gale.
Uncultured bells of azure jacinths blow,
And the breeze scenting violet lurks below.
So views the Wanderer, with delighted eyes,
Reviving hopes from black despondence rise;
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Those hopes had felt a temporary death;
Then with gay heart he looks to future hours,
When Love and Friendship dress the summer bowers;
And, as delicious dreams enchant his mind,
Forgets his sorrows past, and gives them to the wind.
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