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Updated: May 28, 2025
Before that time her muse had been sylvan, speaking of "Flow'rs of May," and hinting at thoughts that overcame her when she roved the woodlands thro'; but now the inspiration was become decidedly municipal and urban, evidently reluctant to depart beyond the retail portions of a metropolis.
"How false is the sight of a lover; How ready his spleen to discover What reason would never allow! Why, Silvio, my sunshine and showers, My blossoms, my birds, and my flow'rs, Were never more perfect than now.
The suffering eye inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees; With here a fountain, never to be play'd, And there a summer-house that knows no shade; Here Amphitrite sails thro' myrtle bow'rs, There gladiators fight or die in flow'rs; Unwater'd see the drooping sea-horse mourn, And swallows roost in Nilus' dusty urn."
For flow'rs and women are allied; Both, nature's glory, and her pride! Of ev'ry fragrant sweet possest, They bloom but for the fair one's breast, And to the swelling bosom borne, Each other mutually adorn. Thus sweetly did he palliate the woes, which the generosity of his actions, mixed with the solemness of the occasion, and the strange request he had vouchsafed to make me, had occasioned.
Reuben my first born, of my strength the flow'rs, The excellency of dignity and power: Unstable as water, be for ever vile, Because thou did thy father's bed defile. Simeon and Levi 're brethren. Instruments Of cruelty lodged in their tents.
The garden like a lady fair was cut That lay as if she slumbered in delight, And to the open skies her eyes did shut; The azure fields of heaven were 'sembled right In a large round set with flow'rs of light: The flowers de luce and the round sparks of dew That hung upon their azure leaves, did show Like twinkling stars that sparkle in the ev'ning blue.
"This was in midst of month of May, When birdis sing on ilka spray, Melland their notes, with seemly soun, For softness of the sweet seasoun. "And leavis of the branchis spreeds, And blomis bright, beside them, breeds And Fieldis strawed are with flow'rs Well savouring of seir colours; And all things wor this, blyth, and gay." Mingling. Their. This Day is published, price 5s.
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