Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AN OLD SONG, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER


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First Line: When all the winds are mellow in the glad spring-time
Last Line: When all the world was merry in the month of may!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian
Subject(s): Spring


When all the winds are mellow in the glad Spring-time,
And bank and fell and fallow blossom-laden,
When every breath's a song, and every laugh like rhyme --
Sing hey, the day for youth to meet a maiden!
Then out amid the morning,
Let Wisdom waste her warning --
We'll laugh, Dear Heart, and sing, Dear Heart, through all
the golden day!
Red lips are such a treasure
As only love can measure,
When all the world is merry in the month of May!

When all the dark is hollow, and the wind blows cold,
And down the West the tawny sun is sinking;
When every word is wise, and every heart grows old, --
Sing ho, the night's a noble time for drinking!
Then drown the wizard Sorrow!
To-night from death we borrow --
We'll laugh, good friends, and quaff, good friends, until
the dawn of day!
Let song and wine remind us
Of loves we left behind us,
When all the world was merry in the month of May!





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