EROS EPHEMERIS
by: John Hay (1838-1905)
- NOUGH of
thunderous passion
- That clouds life's weary way.
- Bid now in merrier fashion
- The jocund pulses play.
- Welcome the airy fancies
- That charm and pass away,
- The light loves,
- The bright loves,
- The loves that live a day.
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- Too rude for mortal bosoms
- The storms that rage for aye;
- Ask not from frost the blossoms
- That deck the laughing May.
- Bid welcome all the gay loves
- That wither if they stay,
- The sweet loves,
- The fleet loves,
- The loves that live a day.
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