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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TO M. S.
When lagging Winter takes his longed-for flight,Chilling the airs of March with frosty wing,
Mark how the child of April, fresh-browed Spring,
Proclaims his presence and his youthful might.
Not scattering full-blown flowers, and richly dight
In gorgeous Summer's proud apparelling,
Nor spreading earth with golden harvesting,
Like unshorn Autumn, king of all delight;
Only upon the hedge-row tops he hangs
A green-tipped bud, and by such slender sign
Tells of the loosening of dead Winter's fangs,
His own dear advent, and his power divine;—
So my rich love, by this poor gift presented,
Argue no less for being thus meanly painted.
Hafodunos, 1845.
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