Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPRING, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS


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First Line: The year has changed his mantle cold
Last Line: The year lays down his mantle cold.
Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of
Subject(s): Love; Spring


THE year has changed his mantle cold
Of wind, of rain, of bitter air;
And he goes clad in cloth of gold,
Of laughing suns and season fair;
No bird or beast of wood or wold
But doth with cry or song declare
The year lays down his mantle cold.
All founts, all rivers, seaward rolled,
The pleasant summer livery wear,
With silver studs on broidered vair;
The world puts off its raiment old,
The year lays down his mantle cold.





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