Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUNSHINE AND SHOWER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE


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SUNSHINE AND SHOWER, by                    
First Line: Blow soft, ye winds, from out the south
Last Line: Her peaceful radiance!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Nature Of; Peace; Youth; Paradise


I

BLOW soft, ye winds, from out the South,
Breathe low, as from the All-Mother's mouth,
And whisper to this darksome heart
Tidings She only can impart,
Tidings which, at a Mother's knee,
Hold both of heaven and earth the key—
Dim shadowings of the vision'd truth
Reveal'd in sweet, far days of Youth.
Waft, waft, ye winds, come waft me o'er
Rich incense from your vernal store—
The hot scent of the odorous pine,
The breezy gorse, like perfumed wine,
That rambling over hill and dale
With thankful heart I may inhale
Spring's balmy fragrance.

II

Inconstant Dame! hast changed so soon
The sunny garb of yesternoon?
Shall moody frowns thy charms efface,
Like wayward children out of grace?
Or do thy dear inconstancies
Expound some riddle of the skies?—
That cloud and sunshine, wind and shower,
Are gifts alike of equal dower,
Forces obedient to His will
Who spreads the feast of the daffodil.
Then haste thy mandate to obey!
Lead on thy legions to the fray!—
The warring winds, the misted rain,
The hail-storm driving o'er the plain,
In cloudy dissonance!

III

Hark! thunder warns—the wakeful hare
Now hasteneth to her grassy lair,
While Heaven's high flood-gates, open'd wide,
Pour forth the deluge tide on tide,
And leaping fires of varied form
Reveal the grandeur of the storm!
Not now the feather'd tribe delight
In lyric love, or whirring flight:
'Mid covert close of oak and ash,
Their colour'd pennons cease to flash.
While the bright sun's resplendent rays
Are veil'd beneath a spectral haze.
When, lo! a symbol from on high,
A Rainbow throws across the sky
Her peaceful radiance!





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