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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER: 5. CHANGE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poet's Biography
First Line: O! Sweetly beautiful it is to mark
Last Line: And, mocking earth, bid man's thoughts point on high.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Winter
First Line: O! Sweetly beautiful it is to mark
Last Line: And, mocking earth, bid man's thoughts point on high.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Winter
O! SWEETLY beautiful it is to mark
The virgin vernal Snow-drop, lifting up,
Meek as a nun, the whiteness of its cup
From earth's dead bosom, desolate and dark!
Glorious is Summer, with its rich array
Of blossom'd greenery, perfume-glowing bowers,
Blue skies, and balmy airs, and fruits, and flowers,
Bright sunshine, singing birds, and endless day!
Nor glorious less brown Autumn's witchery,
As by her golden trees Pomona sits,
And Ceres, as she wanders, hears by fits
The reapers' chant, beneath the mellowing sky!
But thy blasts, Winter, hymn a moral lay,
And, mocking Earth, bid Man's thoughts point on high.
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