FAREWEL , sweet shelter of the vernal grove,
For lo! sad Autumn, desolating pow’r!
Along the vales thy faded beauties rove,
And spread wild anarchy from bow’r to bow’r.
Thy yellow leaves, moist with ambrosial dew,
Mourn not, though clust’ring on the ground they lie;
For time shall soon thy bloomy charms renew,
Those scatter’d charms that claim my pensive sigh.
Revolving seasons shall the vales array
In all the lustre of their short-liv’d bloom;
But ah! to me their widowing leaves pourtray
The silent hours that bow me to the tomb.
For thus, alas! the race of man decays,
Blown down by age to wither on the ground;
They feel th’ approach of their autumnal days,
Thick as thy leafy multitudes around.
Thus oft will wither, e’en in beauty’s charms,
The flow’rs which scarce have blush’d a summer fair,
Snatch’d by stern fate to death’s cold icy arms,
Ere yet prepar’d to leave this vale of care.
So speaks reflection in this chequer’d scene;
But most in Autumn whispers it to all,
While mortals frolic in life’s flow’ry green,
And careless wander till o’erwhelm’d they fall.
(Emma Lyon)
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