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DEPARTING SUMMER.
When auburn autumn mounts the stage,
And summer fails her charms to yield;
Bleak nature turns another page,
To light the glories of the field.
And summer fails her charms to yield;
Bleak nature turns another page,
To light the glories of the field.
At once the vale declines to bloom,
The forest smiles no longer gay;
Gardens are left without perfume,
The rose and lilly pine away.
The forest smiles no longer gay;
Gardens are left without perfume,
The rose and lilly pine away.
The orchard bows her fruitless head,
As one divested of her store;
Or, like a queen whose train has fled,
And left her sad to smile no more.
As one divested of her store;
Or, like a queen whose train has fled,
And left her sad to smile no more.
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That bird which breath'd her vernal song,
And hopp'd along the flow'ry spray;
Now silent holds her warbling tongue,
Which dulcifies the feast of May.
And hopp'd along the flow'ry spray;
Now silent holds her warbling tongue,
Which dulcifies the feast of May.
But let each bitter have its sweet;
No change of nature is in vain;
'Tis just, alternate, cold and heat,
For time pleasure mixed with pain.
No change of nature is in vain;
'Tis just, alternate, cold and heat,
For time pleasure mixed with pain.
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