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Emblem of life! see changeful April sail In varying vest along the shadowy skies, Now bidding summer’s stormy zephyrs rise, Anon, recalling winter’s softest gale, And pouring from the cloud her sudden hail; Then, smiling through the tear that dims her eyes, While Iris with her braid the welkin dyes, Promise of sunshine, not so prone to fail. So to us sojourners in life’s low vale, The smiles of fortune flatter to deceive, While still the fates the web of misery weave; So hope exultant spreads her airy sail, And from the present gloom the soul conveys To distant summers, and far happier days.
Emblem of life! see changeful April sail In varying vest along the shadowy skies, Now bidding summer’s stormy zephyrs rise, Anon, recalling winter’s softest gale, And pouring from the cloud her sudden hail; Then, smiling through the tear that dims her eyes, While Iris with her braid the welkin dyes, Promise of sunshine, not so prone to fail. So to us sojourners in life’s low vale, The smiles of fortune flatter to deceive, While still the fates the web of misery weave; So hope exultant spreads her airy sail, And from the present gloom the soul conveys To distant summers, and far happier days.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- H. K. White (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 105 · printed citation: H. K. White · subject: CHANGE
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