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ZEPHYRUMQUE VOCAT.— Virg. 



Thou comest, gentle Zej^hyr, with thy breatli 

 Restorative of flow'r, in thy hand 



Holding the primrose pale — 



Thy tresses violet-bound ; 



While tauntingly the drooping first then shew'st 

 To ^olus, who speeds him in the train 



Of equinoctial blasts 



For dark Cimmerian holds : 



And welcome is thy visit — welcome more 

 If with the cheerful leaf thou gav'st the mind 



The cheerfulness to hail 



Thee guardian of her spring. 



But she must rise and droop ; and well if here 

 Her irksome changes closed — ah I rise and droop 



And sensitively share 



All but the vernal cheer ! 



With thee comes Earth's fair, beautiful, and gay ; 

 With thee they sport; thou look est thou upon 



And laughest; and they laugh 



Reciprocating joy ! 



Not so the mind, aspirmg, of young song : 

 She watches thy descent — marks thy attire 



Brilliant of Iris-hue, 



And gay attendants round ; 



She hears thy quick approach, once musical. 

 As thro' the grove and field each slender bough 



Summoned the trem'lous leaves 



To ring enlivening peals. 



But now, alas ! a harsher note is thine — 

 Hoarse campanology, as through the shrouds 



Of steepled bark thou climb'st 



To fill th' impatient sail. 



Yet, even here the child of song would joy, 

 And_ heed thy grating numbers, if to part 



Were but to part and meet, 



And meet — to part no more ! 



