A Sicilian Story With Diego de Montilla, and Other Poems. By Barry Cornwall [i.e. Bryan Waller Procter]. Second Edition |
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SUMMER.
Now have green April and the blue-eyed MayVanish'd awhile: and lo! the glorious June
(While Nature ripens in his burning noon)
Comes like a young inheritor, and gay,
Altho' his parent months have passed away;
But his green crown shall wither, and the tune
That usher'd in his birth be silent soon,
And in the strength of youth shall he decay.
What matters this—so long as in the past
And in the days to come we live, and feel
The present nothing worth, until it steal
Away, and like a disappointment die?
For Joy, dim child of Hope and Memory,
Flies ever on before or follows fast.
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