<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397004" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Spring</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hail, thou auspicious vernal dawn!<br>Ye birds, proclaim the winter's gone,<br>Ye warbling minstrels sing;<br>Pour forth your tribute as ye rise,<br>And thus salute the fragrant skies<br>The pleasing smiles of Spring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Coo sweetly, oh thou harmless Dove,<br>And bid thy mate no longer rove,<br>In cold, hybernal vales;<br>Let music rise from every tongue,<br>Whilst winter flies before the song,<br>Which floats on gentle gales.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Ye frozen streams dissolve and flow<br>Along the valley, sweet and slow;<br>Divested fields be gay:<br>Ye drooping forests bloom on high,<br>And raise your branches to the sky,<br>And thus your charms display.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Thou world of heat--thou vital source,<br>The torpid insects feel thy force,<br>Which all with life supplies;<br>Gardens and orchards richly bloom,<br>And send a gale of sweet perfume,<br>To invite them as they rise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Near where the crystal waters glide,<br>The male of birds escorts his bride,<br>And twitters on the spray;<br>He mounts upon his active wing,<br>To hail the bounty of the Spring,<br>The lavish pomp of May.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Inspiring month of youthful Love,<br>How oft we in the peaceful grove,<br>Survey the flowery plume;<br>Or sit beneath the sylvan shade,<br>Where branches wave above the head,<br>And smile on every bloom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Exalted month, when thou art gone,<br>May Virtue then begin the dawn<br>Of an eternal Spring?<br>May raptures kindle on my tongue,<br>And start a new, eternal song,<br>Which ne'er shall cease to ring!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Moses+Horton">George Moses Horton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397004" data-title="On Spring de George Moses Horton" data-description="Hail, thou auspicious vernal dawn! Ye birds, proclaim the winter's gone, Ye warbling minstrels sing; Pour forth your tribute as ye rise, And thus salute the fragrant skies The pleasing smiles of Spring. Coo sweetly, oh thou harmless Dove, And bi..."></div> </div> </div>

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