Sonnets written chiefly during a tour through Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Hungary. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
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SONNET.
ON THE HELENENTHAL.
The gurgling brook sang near its pleasant song,With voice of clearest chrystal singing sweet,
And rolled its wave of sunshine at our feet,
And birds, hard by, trilled loud,—a merry throng,
The sheltering, shadowing, sweeping woods, among,
As they would sing before the noon-day's heat;
And many an echo did the strain repeat.
No cloud was dark—no swelling breeze was strong—
But gentlest airs just moved the leaf and blade;
And tenderest fleeces softly flecked the sky,
And beautiful as sunshine seemed the shade!—
Ten thousand nameless beauties charmed the eye,
Born of the moment—suddenly displayed,
And then as suddenly snatched back—past by!
Baden, near Vienna.
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