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Ah, how soon The shades of twilight follow hazy noon, Short’ning the busy day!—day that slides by Amidst th’ unfinish’d toils of husbandry; Toils still each morn resumed with double care, To meet the icy terrors of the year; To meet the threats of Boreas undismay’d, And Winter’s gathering frowns and hoary head. Then welcome, cold; welcome, ye snowy nights! Heaven ’midst your rage shall mingle pure delights, And confidence of hope the soul sustain, While devastation sweeps along the plain: Nor shall the child of poverty despair, But bless the Power that rules the changing year; Assur’d—though horrors round his cottage reign— That Spring will come, and Nature smile again.
Ah, how soon The shades of twilight follow hazy noon, Short’ning the busy day!—day that slides by Amidst th’ unfinish’d toils of husbandry; Toils still each morn resumed with double care, To meet the icy terrors of the year; To meet the threats of Boreas undismay’d, And Winter’s gathering frowns and hoary head. Then welcome, cold; welcome, ye snowy nights! Heaven ’midst your rage shall mingle pure delights, And confidence of hope the soul sustain, While devastation sweeps along the plain: Nor shall the child of poverty despair, But bless the Power that rules the changing year; Assur’d—though horrors round his cottage reign— That Spring will come, and Nature smile again.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 529 · printed citation: Bloomfield · subject: SEASONS
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