DESCRIPTION OF SPRING,
WHEREIN EVERY THING RENEWS, SAVE ONLY THE LOVER.
THE soote 1 season, that bud and bloom forth brings,
With green hath clad the hill, and eke 2 the vale.
The nightingale with feathers new she sings ;
The turtle 3 to her make 4 hath told her tale.
Summer is come, for every spray5 now springs,
The hart 6 hath hung his old head 7 on the pale;8
The buck in brake 9 his winter coat he slings ;
The fishes flete 10 with new repairèd scale ;
The adder all her slough away she slings ;
The swift swallow pursueth the fliës smale ;11
The busy bee her honey now she mings ;12
Winter is worn13 that was the flowers' bale.14
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care15 decays, and yet my sorrow springs !
[ AJ Notes:
1 Sweet.
2 Also.
3 Turtledove.
4 Mate.
5 Sprig; spray of flowers.
6 Deer.
7 i.e., last year's antlers.
8 Fencepost; picket.
9 Bracken; thicket.
10 Fleet; fast.
11 Small.
12 Mixes.
13 Worn out; over.
14 Bane; destruction.
15 Worry; worrisome thing.]
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