urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.OdeontheSpring.English.1716_oots:	edition	
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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.
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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.