WINE, WOMEN, AND SONG. - The Language Realm
WINE, WOMEN, AND SONG. - The Language Realm
WINE, WOMEN, AND SONG. - The Language Realm
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No. 22.<br />
Meadows bloom, in Winter's room<br />
Reign the Loves and Graces,<br />
With their gift of buds that lift<br />
Bright and laughing faces;<br />
'Neath the ray of genial May,<br />
Shining, glowing, blushing, growing,<br />
<strong>The</strong>y the joys of spring are showing<br />
In their manifold array.<br />
Songbirds sweet the season greet,<br />
Tune their merry voices;<br />
Sound the ways with hymns of praise,<br />
Every lane rejoices.<br />
On the bough in greenwood now<br />
Flowers are springing, perfumes flinging,<br />
While young men and maids are clinging<br />
To the loves they scarce avow.<br />
O'er the grass together pass<br />
Bands of lads loveladen:<br />
Row by row in bevies go<br />
Bride and blushing maiden.<br />
[83]See with glee 'neath lindentree,<br />
Where the dancing girls are glancing,<br />
How the matron is advancing!<br />
At her side her daughter see!<br />
She's my own, for whom alone,<br />
If fate wills, I'll tarry;<br />
Young Maymoon, or late or soon,<br />
'Tis with her I'd marry!<br />
Now with sighs I watch her rise,<br />
She the purely loved, the surely<br />
Chosen, who my heart securely<br />
Turns from grief to Paradise.<br />
In her sight with heaven's own light<br />
Like the gods I blossom;<br />
Care for nought till she be brought<br />
Yielding to my bosom.<br />
Thirst divine my soul doth pine<br />
To behold her and enfold her,<br />
With clasped arms alone to hold her<br />
In Love's holy hidden shrine.<br />
But the theme of the dance is worked up with even greater elaboration and a more studied<br />
ingenuity of rhyme and rhythm in the following characteristic song. This has the true accent of<br />
what may be called the Musa Vagabundula, and is one of the best lyrics of the series:[84]—