Classic Poem

Once more return'd to curl the dimpling lake
Auspicious Zephyr waves his downy wing,
Rous'd at his touch the slumbering flowers awake
With all the smiling Family of Spring:
Again is heard the turtle's amorous tale,
Again the swallow twitters o'er her nest,
Again wild music melts in every vale,
And love rekindling glows in every breast:
Thus they return: but ah! to me no more
Return the pleasures of the vernal plain,
In vain for me resounds the vocal shore,
And woods renew their verdant robes in vain;
Nor counsel sweet of Friends can ease my care,
Nor even the sweeter converse of the Fair.