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O spring, of hope and love and youth and gladness Wing-winged emblem! Brightest, best and fairest! Whence comest thou when with dark Winter's sadness The tears that fade in sunny smiles thou sharest? Sister of Joy! thou art the child who wearest Thy mother's dying smile, tender and sweet: Thy mother Autumn, for whose grave thou bearest Fresh flowers, and beams like flowers, Disturbing not the leaves which are her winding-sheet.
O spring, of hope and love and youth and gladness Wing-winged emblem! Brightest, best and fairest! Whence comest thou when with dark Winter's sadness The tears that fade in sunny smiles thou sharest? Sister of Joy! thou art the child who wearest Thy mother's dying smile, tender and sweet: Thy mother Autumn, for whose grave thou bearest Fresh flowers, and beams like flowers, Disturbing not the leaves which are her winding-sheet.
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 127; printed byline: Shelley; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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