The Wanderer of Switzerland Author:James Montgomery Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REMONSTRANCE TO WINTER. Ah ! why, unfeeling Winter ! why Still flags thy torpid wing ? Fly, Melancholy Season, fly,.. And yield the year to Spring. S... more »pring,—the young harbinger of love, An exile in disgrace,— Flits o'er the scene, like Noah's dove, Nor finds a resting-place. When on the mountain's azure peak Alights her fairy form, Cold blow the winds,—and dark and bleak Around her rolls the storm. If to the valley she repair For shelter and defence, Thy wrath pursues the mourner there, And drives her, weeping, thence. She seeks the brook, the faithless brook, Of her unmindful grown, Feels the chill magic of thy look, And lingers into. stona. She wooes her embryo-flowers in'vain To rear their infant heads ;— Deaf to her voice, her flowers remain Enchanted in their beds. In vain she bids the trees expand Their green' luxuriant charms;— Bare in the wilderness they stand, And stretch their withering arms Her favourite birds, in feeble notes, Lament thy long delay; And strain their little stammering throats To charm thy blasts away. Ah, Winter ! calm thy cruel rage. Release the struggling year; Thy power is past, decrepid Sage! Arise and disappear. The stars that graced thy splendid night- Are lost in warmer rays; The Sun, rejoicing in his might, Unrolls celestial days. Then why, usurping Winter, why Still flags thy frozen wing ? Fly, unrelenting tyrant, fly— And yield the year to Spring ! SONG. Round Love's Elysian bowers The fairest prospects rise; There bloom the sweetest flowers, There shine the purest skies: And joy and rapture gild awhile The cloudless heaven of Beauty's smile. Round Love's deserted bowers Tremendous rocks arise; Cold mildews blight the flowers, ...« less