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First Line: Still are the cowslips from thy bosom
Last Line: Silent, forsaken, dim, shadowed by what hath been.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Spring


STILL are the cowslips from thy bosom springing,
O far-off, grassy dell? -- and dost thou see,
When southern winds first wake their vernal singing,
The star-gleam of the wood anemone?
Doth the shy ringdove haunt thee yet? the bee
Hang on thy flowers as when I breathed farewell
To their wild blooms? and, round my beechen tree,
Still, in green softness, doth the moss-bank swell?
Oh, strange illusion! by the fond heart wrought,
Whose own warm life suffuses nature's face!
My being's tide of many-coloured thought
Hath passed from thee; and now, rich, leafy place
I paint thee oft, scarce consciously, a scene,
Silent, forsaken, dim, shadowed by what hath been.





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