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It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
It is a great victory that comes without blood.
It is a great victory that comes without blood.
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows read more
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.
'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.
Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Since riches point to misery and contempt?
Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Since riches point to misery and contempt?