Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AESTIVATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES



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First Line: In candent ire the solar splendor flames
Last Line: Depart, -- be off, -- excede, -- evade, -- erump!
Variant Title(s): Intramural Aestivation; Or Summer In Town;aestivation: An Unpublished Poem Of My Late Latin Tutor
Subject(s): Nonsense


IN candent ire the solar splendor flames;
The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames;
His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes,
And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes.

How dulce to vive occult to mortal eyes,
Dorm on the herb with none to supervise,
Carp the suave berries from the crescent vine,
And bibe the flow from longicaudate kine!

To me, alas! no verdurous visions come,
Save yon exiguous pool's conferva-scum, --
No concave vast repeats the tender hue
That laves my milk-jug with celestial blue!

Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades!
Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids!
Oh, might I vole to some umbrageous clump, --
Depart, -- be off, -- excede, -- evade, -- erump!





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