Oh! when 'tis summer weather
William Lisle Bowles
1762 to 1850
Oh! when 'tis summer weather,
And the yellow bee, with fairy sound,
The waters clear is humming round,
And the cuckoo sings unseen,
And the leaves are waving green —
Oh! then 'tis sweet,
In some remote retreat,
To hear the murmuring, dove,
With those whom on earth alone we love.
And to wind through the greenwood together.
But when 'tis winter weather,
And crosses grieve,
And friends deceive,
And rain and sleet
The lattice beat, —
Oh! then 'tis sweet
To sit and sing
Of the friends with whom, in the days of spring,
We roamed through the greenwood together.
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