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RETURNING SPRING BRINGS TO HIM ONLY INCREASE OF GRIEF.
Zephyr returns; and in his jocund train / Brings verdure, flowers, and days serenely clear; / Brings Progne's twitter, Philomel's lorn strain, / With every bloom that paints the vernal year; / Cloudless the skies, and smiling every plain; / With joyance flush'd, Jove views his daughter dear; / Love's genial power pervades earth, air, and main; / All beings join'd in fond accord appear.