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Days Too Short

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When primroses are out in Spring,      And small, blue violets come between;      When merry birds sing on boughs green,     And rills, as soon as born, must sing;     When butterflies will make side-leaps,      As though escaped from Nature's hand      Ere perfect quite; and bees will stand     Upon their heads in fragrant deeps;     When small clouds are so silvery white      Each seems a broken rimmed moon,      When such things are, this world too soon,     For me, doth wear the veil of Night.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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