LINES ON THE OPENING OF A SPRING CAMPAIGN. Amelia Opie (née Alderson) Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853. The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems. By Mrs. Opie. 2d. ed. London Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-row 1808 pp. [121]-123.

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LINES ON THE OPENING OF A SPRING CAMPAIGN . SPRING ! thy impatient bloom restrain ! Nor wake so soon thy genial power ; For deeds of death must hail thy reign , And clouds of fate around thee lower : .... In vain thy balmy breath to me Scents with its sweets the evening gale ; In vain the violet's charms I see , Or fondly mark thy primrose pale : To me thy softest zephyrs breathe Of sorrow's soul-disparting tone ; To me thy most attractive wreath Seems tinged with human blood alone . Arrest thy steps , thou source of love , Thou genial friend of joy and life ! Let not thy smile propitious prove To works of carnage , scenes of strife : Bid winter all his frowns recall , And back his icy footsteps trace ; Again the soil in frost enthral , And check the war-fiend's murderous chase . Fond , fruitless prayer ! Thy hand divine The smiling season on must lead ; And still at war's ensanguined shrine Must bid unnumbered victims bleed .