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LOSS AND RESTORATION OF SMELL, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dull to the year's first odours, I rebelled
Last Line: Fresh triumphs for it, when the spring comes in.
Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


Dull to the year's first odours, I rebelled
Against the law which doom'd the violets
Ere I had smelt them; but, ere long, I held
A quicken'd nostril over all the sweets
Of the full summer - for I had besought
The All-Giver to restore my blunted sense;
Humbly I pray'd, and breath of roses brought
The answer. O! it was a joy intense,
After that dreary interval of loss.
I laughed, I ran about as one possessed;
And now that winter seems my hopes to cross
I snuff the very frost with happy zest,
Proud of recovered power, and fain to win
Fresh triumphs for it, when the Spring comes in.





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