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LOVE'S CALENDAR by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE SUMMER COMES AND THE SUMMER GOES
Last Line: WE ONLY KNOW WINTER IS COME -- BY THE SNOW.
Subject(s): TIME;

THE Summer comes and the Summer goes;
Wild-flowers are fringing the dusty lanes,
The swallows go darting through fragrant rains,
Then, all of a sudden -- it snows.

Dear Heart, our lives so happily flow,
So lightly we heed the flying hours,
We only know Winter is gone -- by the flowers,
We only know Winter is come -- by the snow.



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