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Song: To Marie

Translation of Katharine Hillard

THE SPRING hath not so many flowers;

The autumn, grapes within its bowers;

The summer, heats that make men pale;

The winter, stores of icy hail;

Nor fishes hath the boundless sea,

Nor harvests in fair Beau there be;

Nor Brittany, unnumbered sands,

Nor fountains have Auvergne’s broad lands;

Nor hath so many stars the night,

Nor the wide woodland branches light,—

As hath my heart of heavy pains,

Born of my mistress’s disdains.