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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. 151647
39. Description of Spring Wherein each thing renews, save only the Lover
THE soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings, | |
With green hath clad the hill and eke the vale: | |
The nightingale with feathers new she sings; | |
The turtle to her make hath told her tale. | |
Summer is come, for every spray now springs: | 5 |
The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; | |
The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; | |
The fishes flete with new repairèd scale. | |
The adder all her slough away she slings; | |
The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; | 10 |
The busy bee her honey now she mings; | |
Winter is worn that was the flowers’ bale. | |
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And thus I see among these pleasant things | |
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. | |
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GLOSS: make] mate. mings] mingles, mixes. |