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APPROACH OF SUMMER.

1 How shall I meet thee, Summer, wont to fill
2 My heart with gladness, when thy pleasant tide
3 First came, and on the Coomb's romantic side
4 Was heard the distant cuckoo's hollow bill!
5 Fresh flowers shall fringe the margin of the stream,
6 As with the songs of joyance and of hope
7 The hedge-rows shall ring loud, and on the slope
8 The poplars sparkle in the passing beam;[Page 23]
9 The shrubs and laurels that I loved to tend,
10 Thinking their May-tide fragrance would delight,
11 With many a peaceful charm, thee, my poor friend,
12 Shall put forth their green shoots, and cheer the sight!
13 But I shall mark their hues with sadder eyes,
14 And weep the more for one who in the cold earth lies!

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Title (in Source Edition): APPROACH OF SUMMER.
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Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street..., 1855, pp. 22-23.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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