The Poetical Works of Robert Lloyd ... To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. By W. Kenrick ... In Two Volumes |
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[Though winter its desolate train]
Though winter its desolate train
Of frost and of tempest may bring,
Yet Flora steps forward again,
And nature rejoices in spring.
Of frost and of tempest may bring,
Yet Flora steps forward again,
And nature rejoices in spring.
Though the sun in his glories decreast,
Of his beams in the evening is shorn,
Yet he rises with joy from the east,
And repairs them again in the morn.
Of his beams in the evening is shorn,
Yet he rises with joy from the east,
And repairs them again in the morn.
But what can youth's sunshine recall,
Or the blossoms of beauty restore?
When its leaves are beginning to fall,
It dies, and is heard of no more.
Or the blossoms of beauty restore?
When its leaves are beginning to fall,
It dies, and is heard of no more.
The spring-time of love then employ,
'Tis a lesson that's easy to learn,
For Cupid's a vagrant, a boy,
And his seasons will never return.
'Tis a lesson that's easy to learn,
For Cupid's a vagrant, a boy,
And his seasons will never return.
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