urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:	edition	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1	eceptext	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.1	head	ode on the spring
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.2	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.2.1	l	lo! where the rosy-bosomed hours,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.2.2	l	fair venus' train, appear,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.2.3	l	disclose the long-expecting flowers,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.2.4	l	and wake the purple year!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.2.5	l	the attic warbler pours her throat,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.2.6	l	responsive to the cuckoo's note,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.2.7	l	the untaught harmony of spring:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.2.8	l	while whispering pleasure as they fly,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.2.9	l	cool zephyrs through the clear blue sky
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.2.10	l	their gathered fragrance fling.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3.1	l	where'er the oak's thick branches stretch
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3.2	l	a broader browner shade;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3.3	l	where'er the rude and moss-grown beech
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3.4	l	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3.4.1	l	— a bank [. . .]
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3.4.2	l	[quite] o'er-canopied with luscious woodbine.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3.5	l	beside some water's rushy brink
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3.6	l	with me the muse shall sit, and think
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3.7	l	(at ease reclined in rustic state)
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3.8	l	how vain the ardour of the crowd,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3.9	l	how low, how little are the proud,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.3.10	l	how indigent the great!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4.1	l	still is the toiling hand of care;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4.2	l	the panting herds repose:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4.3	l	yet hark, how through the peopled air
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4.4	l	the busy murmur glows!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4.5	l	the insect youth are on the wing,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4.6	l	eager to taste the honeyed spring,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4.7	l	and float amid the liquid noon:<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> <q>''nare per aestatem liquidam —'' [to swim through cloudless summer]</q> <bibl> <emph>virgil. georg. lib. 4.</emph> [l. 59]</bibl> </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4.8	l	some lightly o'er the current skim,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4.9	l	some show their gaily-gilded trim
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4.10	l	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4.10.1	l	— sporting with quick glance
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.4.10.2	l	shew to the sun their waved coats drop'd with gold.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.5	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.5.1	l	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.5.1.1	l	while insects from the threshold preach, <emph xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">&c.</emph>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.5.2	l	such is the race of man:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.5.3	l	and they that creep, and they that fly,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.5.4	l	shall end where they began.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.5.5	l	alike the busy and the gay
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.5.6	l	but flutter through life's little day,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.5.7	l	in fortune's varying colours dressed:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.5.8	l	brushed by the hand of rough mischance,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.5.9	l	or chilled by age, their airy dance
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.5.10	l	they leave, in dust to rest.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.6	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.6.1	l	methinks i hear in accents low
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.6.2	l	the sportive kind reply:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.6.3	l	poor moralist! and what art thou?
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.6.4	l	a solitary fly!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.6.5	l	thy joys no glittering female meets,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.6.6	l	no hive hast thou of hoarded sweets,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.6.7	l	no painted plumage to display:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.6.8	l	on hasty wings thy youth is flown;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.6.9	l	thy sun is set, thy spring is gone---
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:1.6.10	l	we frolic, while 'tis may.