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A Years Carols: 05 - May

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hail, May, whose bark puts forth full-sailed
For summer; May, whom Chaucer hailed
With all his happy might of heart,
And gave thy rosebright daisy-tips
Strange fragrance from his amorous lips
That still thine own breath seems to part
And sweeten till each word they say
Is even a flower of flowering May.

(C) Algernon Charles Swinburne
01/01/2000


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