Original Verses Translations (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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June: An Ode and a Parable.

June is here! and from far and near the air is filled with the voice of song!
Time of mirth for the teeming earth, thy wheels were slow, thou hast tarried long;
Now at length art thou come in strength; and hearts are hopeful and hopes are strong.

Ah! sweet summer, thou fair late-comer, hast no comfort for hearts that mourn?
Thou art glad though men's souls be sad, yea, sore for days that can ne'er return;
Hopes that died in the autumn-tide, can June-fire yet bid their ashes burn?

Bays on bays, through the distant haze the coastline runneth from red to white,
Steep and stiff, where the pearly cliff is robed in mist-cloud and lost to sight. Greenest grass, as along we pass, with gold gorse-blossom is all alight.

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