| J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Women’s Verse. 1921. | | | | Song: “The Winter being over” | | By Ann Collins (c. 1650) |
| | | THE WINTER being over, | |
| In order comes the Spring, | |
| Which doth green herbs discover, | |
| And cause the birds to sing. | |
| The night also expirèd, | 5 |
| Then comes the morning bright, | |
| Which is so much desirèd | |
| By all that love the light. | |
| This may learn | |
| Them that mourn, | 10 |
| To put their grief to flight: | |
| The Spring succeedeth Winter, | |
| And day must follow night. | |
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| He therefore that sustaineth | |
| Affliction or distress, | 15 |
| Which every member paineth, | |
| And findeth no release: | |
| Let such therefore despair not, | |
| But on firm hope depend, | |
| Whose griefs immortal are not, | 20 |
| And therefore must have end. | |
| They that faint | |
| With complaint | |
| Therefore are to blame: | |
| They add to their afflictions, | 25 |
| And amplify the same. | | | | |
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