Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SPRING SONG, by ANONYMOUS


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A SPRING SONG, by                    
First Line: Lent is come with love to town
Last Line: "but will, outlawed, stray!"
Subject(s): Spring


LENT is come with Love to town,
With blossom, and with birdling's rune,
That all gladness bringeth --
Daisies blow on down and dale,
Sweetly trills the nightingale,
Each her glad song singeth.
The Throstle-cock doth loudly cry,
Past is winter's misery
When the woodruff springeth;
Yea, so glad the birdlings be
When they Winter's waning see,
That the woodland ringeth!

Now the rose is clad in red;
On the light twigs overhead
Leaves unfold at will;
And the moon doth shew her light,
Fair the lily blossoms white,
The fennel by the rill.
Wooing, preens himself the drake;
Man and maid, they merry make
Where the stream runs still.
But the sad, he moaneth aye,
I be one of those to-day,
Love doth like me ill!

Now the moon sends forth her light,
As the seemly sunbeams bright
When the birds sing gay;
Dank, the dew on down it lies;
Lovers in their secret wise
Speak their Yea, or Nay.
'Neath the clod the worm doth woo,
And the maidens proudly go,
Fair to see are they!
If I lack the love of one
Of this joy will I have none
But will, outlawed, stray!





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