Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WALK, by WILLIAM HAMMOND


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First Line: Blest walk! That with your leavy arms embrace
Last Line: Requiting your own warmth with equal fires.
Subject(s): Nature


BLEST Walk! that with your leavy arms embrace
In small, what beauty the dilated face
Of the whole world contains! The violet,
Bowing its humble head down at her feet,
Pays homage for the livery of her veins:
Roses and lilies, and what beauteous stains
Nature adorns the Spring with, are but all
Faint copies of this fair Original.
She is a moving Paradise, doth view
Your greens, not to refresh herself, but you.
This path's th' Ecliptic, heat prolific hence
Is shed on you by her kind influence;
She is, alas! too like the Sun, who grants
That warmth to all, which in himself he wants.
You thus oblig'd, this benefit return,
Teach her by lectures visible to burn;
That she, when Zephyr moves each whisp'ring bough
To kiss his neighbour, thence may learn t' allow
The real seals of kindness, and be taught
By twining woodbines what sweet joys are caught
In such embraces. Thus, and thousand ways
Told you by amorous Fairies, and the lays
Of your fond guardian, waken her desires,
Requiting your own warmth with equal fires.





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