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<A COLERIDGE><T STC1> <Y 1787> <P 1> <V 1> <R 1> <L 0><E 1912> Easter Holidays ((Verse 1st)) Hail! festal Easter that dost bring Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature's clad in green: When feather'd songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. <R 2>((Verse 2nd)) Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o'er the road To Greenwich haste away: While some with sounding oars divide Of smoothly-flowing Thames the tide All sing the festive lay. ((Verse 3rd)) <r 3> With mirthful dance they beat the ground, Their shouts of joy the hills resound And catch the jocund noise: Without a tear, without a sigh Their moments all in transports fly Till evening ends their joys. ((Verse 4th)) <r 4> But little think their joyous hearts Of dire Misfortune's varied smarts Which youthful years conceal: Thoughtless of bitter-smiling Woe Which all mankind are born to know And they themselves must feel. ((Verse 5th)) <p 2> <r 5> Yet he wh . . .
