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The Bibelot

VOLUME I

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From The Bibelot, A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known, Volume I, Number III, Testimonial Edition, Edited and Originally Published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine; Wm. Wise & Co.; New York; 1895; p. 68 .

III.   MEDIÆVAL LATIN STUDENTS’ SONGS




68

“Another song, blending the praises of spring with a little pagan vow to Cupid, has in the original Latin a distinction and purity of outline which might be almost called Horatian. ”


THE
VOW TO CUPID.









WINTER, now thy spite is spent,
Frost and ice and branches bent!
Fogs and furious storms are o’er,
Sloth and torpor, sorrow frore,
Pallid wrath, lean discontent.


Comes the grateful hand of May
Cloudless shines the limpid day,
Shine by night the Pleiades;
While a grateful summer breeze
Makes the season soft and gay.


Golden Love! shine forth to view!
Souls of stubborn men subdue!
See me bend! what is thy mind?
Make the girl thou givest kind,
And a leaping ram’s they due!


O the jocund face of earth,
Breathing with young grassy birth!
Every tree with foliage clad,
Singing birds in greenwood glad,
Flowering fields for lovers’ mirth!




















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