George Darley (Джордж Дарли)

Lenimina Laborum. 10. Fair as the flower is, it will yet decay

Written in a Leafless Bower 
at Hon. Mrs. Westenra's, December, 1826.

Fair as the flower is, it will yet decay;
Green as the leaf is, it will yet be sere;
Night has a pall to wind the gaudiest day,
And Winter wraps in shrouds the loveliest year:
For those the gale mom-ns in loud accents drear,
The blooms that gave it sweeter breath are gone;
Heaven's glistening eyes with many a silent tear
Beweep the nightly burial of the sun;
Nature herself the lifeless year deplores,
Sad Mother, laying all her children low.
From her deep heartspring grief's wild torrent pours.
Hill, vale, and desolate woodland speak her woe:
Thou too must fade like year—day—leaf—and bloom,
Pale moralist!—wilt have like mourners at thy tomb? 

1. Lenimina Laborum. 56. The Nightingale and the Thorn
2. Lenimina Laborum. 11. Hymn to the Sun
3. Lenimina Laborum. 15. Monet Annus
4. Lenimina Laborum. 4. Prayer at Burial
5. Lenimina Laborum. 28. To My Dead Mistress

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