RELENTLESS Winter, hence away!
Collect thy stormy bands and fly:
Thy chilling frost, and snow, and hail,
And the piercing northern gale:
We wish not for thy longer stay,
Hence with thy train of tempests fly.
Haste to bleak Siberia’s wild,
Or dreary Greenland’s utmost shore,
Where never yet the solar ray
Could melt the mountain snows away:
Nor ever beauteous summer smil’d
Since creation’s earliest hour.
Or seek the southern hemisphere,
Where beneath th’ antarctic pole,
‘Mid rugged piles of drifted snow,
The ocean’s billows cease to flow,
Arrested in their wild career,
And chang’d to mountains as they roll.
There may thy winds incessant sweep
The surface of the frozen main;
There may’st thou revel uncontroul’d,
And thy tumultuous levee hold,
Thy stormy court perpetual keep,
Sole monarch of the drear domain.
For spring will never there unfold
Its swelling buds or blossoms gay,
Nor e’er the warmth of genial skies,
Call forth the summer’s varied dies,
Nor fruitful autumn’s waving gold,
To interrupt thy boundless sway.
(Isabella Lickbarrow)
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