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SONNET: 271, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This mountain-scene with sylvan grandeur
Last Line: A secret grief is mine, that will not rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De
Subject(s): Nature


THIS mountain-scene with sylvan grandeur crowned;
These chestnut-woods, in summer verdure bright;
These founts and rivulets, whose mingling sound
Lulls every bosom to serene delight;

Soft on these hills the sun's declining ray;
This clime, where all is new; these murmuring seas;
Flocks, to the fold that bend their lingering way;
Light clouds, contending with the genial breeze;

And all that Nature's lavish hands dispense,
In gay luxuriance, charming every sense,
Ne'er in thy absence, can delight my breast:
Nought, without thee, my weary soul beguiles:
And joy may beam yet, 'midst her brightest smiles,
A secret grief is mine, that will not rest.





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