FIRST ADVENT OF LOVE

by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

FAIR is Love's first hope to gentle mind!

As Eve's first star thro' fleecy cloudlet peeping;

And sweeter than the gentle south-west wind,

O'er willowy meads and shadowed waters creeping,

And Ceres' golden fields;--the sultry hind

Meets it with brow uplift, and stays his reaping.

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