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SONG ON LEAVING THE COUNTRY EARLY IN SPRING, by                    
First Line: While joy re-animates the fields
Last Line: O'er the unopened bud an unrefreshing shower.
Subject(s): Country Life; Farewell; Parting


WHILE joy re-animates the fields,
And spring her odorous treasures yields;
While love inspires the happy grove,
And music breaks from every spray;
I leave the sweet retreat I love
Ere bloss'ming hawthorn greets the May;
Sad destiny! O! let me plaintive pour
O'er the unopened bud an unrefreshing shower.


To yonder hills, which bound the sight,
Where blushing eve dissolves in night,
To the wild heath, o'er which the gale
Bleak wafts each sweet perfume of spring,
And to the weed-grown briary vale
Sorrowing the parting lay I sing;
"Sweet flowers of spring, enlivening day,
"Nature's unfolding charms fleet fast away."


At morn I've viewed the glimmering light
Break from the east, and chase the night;
Then strayed amid the frosty dews,
While soaring larks shrill chanting rise,
And marked the thousand varying hues
That streak the glowing morning skies.
"Sweet air of spring, enlivening day,
"Nature's unfolding charms fleet fast away."


No dasied lawns shall greet my eye,
Reluctant from their sweets I fly;
No more, wild wandering o'er the plains,
I share each innocent delight;
The tinkling flocks, the woodland strains,
The rural dance no more invite.
Sad destiny! O! let me plaintive pour
O'er the unopened bud an unrefreshing shower.





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