| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | November, 1793 | | By William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| | | THERE is strange music in the stirring wind, | |
| When lowers the autumnal eve, and all alone | |
| To the dark wood’s cold covert thou art gone, | |
| Whose ancient trees on the rough slope reclined | |
| Rock, and at times scatter their tresses sere. | 5 |
| If in such shades, beneath their murmuring, | |
| Thou late hast passed the happier hours of spring, | |
| With sadness thou wilt mark the fading year; | |
| Chiefly if one, with whom such sweets at morn | |
| Or evening thou hast shared, far off shall stray. | 10 |
| O Spring, return! return, auspicious May! | |
| But sad will be thy coming, and forlorn, | |
| If she return not with thy cheering ray, | |
| Who from these shades is gone, gone far away. | | | | |
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