Lyrics of the heart With other poems. By Alaric A. Watts. With forty-one engravings on steel |
LOVE AND SPRING. |
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LOVE AND SPRING.
'Twas the genial month of flowers,
Merry May, when first we met;
Youth, and Hope, and Love were ours,
Love, and Hope are with us yet;—
Time, and Care defy the will,
But our hearts are spring-like still.
Merry May, when first we met;
Youth, and Hope, and Love were ours,
Love, and Hope are with us yet;—
Time, and Care defy the will,
But our hearts are spring-like still.
Time may “thin the flowing hair;”
Rob the eye of half its light;
And the breath of low-born Care
Hope may canker, Beauty blight;—
Fate may frown and Friends grow chill,
So the heart be vernal still!
Rob the eye of half its light;
And the breath of low-born Care
Hope may canker, Beauty blight;—
Fate may frown and Friends grow chill,
So the heart be vernal still!
Centred thus 'mid Alpine snows,
Storms above, and glaciers 'round,
One green spot no winter knows;
But, like fairy-haunted ground,
Holds within its charmed ring
All the freshest hues of spring!
Storms above, and glaciers 'round,
One green spot no winter knows;
But, like fairy-haunted ground,
Holds within its charmed ring
All the freshest hues of spring!
Lyrics of the heart | ||