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First Line: The spring will come, but ah! Will she?
Last Line: The girl that boughton promised me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Boughton, George Henry (1833-1905); Paintings & Painters


(In anticipation of a promised water-colour to illustrate the poem
'Love in Winter.' See page 74.)

THE Spring will come, but ah! will She? --
The girl that BOUGHTON promised me? --
My Bella, who he said should go,
In fitting tint across the snow!
Yet why, forsooth, shall I complain,
Since this my loss is others' gain; --
Since BOUGHTON, even now, perhaps,
Is painting frows in Friesland caps;
Or puts, maybe, the final touch
To some fresh Lovelace in Low Dutch;
Or else he makes the world more rich
By still one more New-England witch;
Or sees upon his canvass grow
Some priestess crowned with mistletoe.
Then, by and by, the crowd will rush
To praise these fruits of BOUGHTON'S brush,
And bless the artist who can blend
Unfading beauty with Ostend;
Or trace immortal truth behind
The furrowed face of humankind.
So why (I say) should I complain
Since this my loss is others' gain!
And yet, and yet, I fain would see
The girl that BOUGHTON promised me!





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