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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 . . .

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