Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BIRKS OF INVERMAY [OR, ENDERMAY], by DAVID MALLET


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THE BIRKS OF INVERMAY [OR, ENDERMAY], by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The smiling morn, and breathing spring
Last Line: Farewell, ye birks of endermay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Malloch, David
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Love; Transience; Impermanence


THE smiling morn, and breathing spring,
Invite the tuneful birds to sing,
And, while they warble from each spray,
Love melts the universal lay:
Let us, Amanda, timely wise,
Like them improve the hour that flies,
And in soft raptures waste the day
Among the birks of Endermay.

For soon the winter of the year,
And age, life's winter, will appear;
At this thy living bloom must fade,
As that will strip the verdant shade.
Our taste for pleasure then is o'er,
The feather'd warblers charm no more;
And when they droop, and we decay,
Farewell, ye birks of Endermay.








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