Nature
Cold Winter's ice is fled and gone
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Nature
Cold Winter's ice is fled and gone,
And Summer brags on every tree,
The red-breast peeps amidst the throng
Of wood-born birds that wanton be:
Each one forgets what they have been,
And so doth Phyllis, Summer's queen.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Weelkes' Madrigals of Five and Six Parts, 1600.
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