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Ah! scenes belov'd! again delightful spring In vernal beauty decks your smiling vales; With balmy odour scents the zephyr's wing, And wafts from heav'n the soft Favonian gales.

With transport once, to hail her blest return, I tun'd my artless reed, my numbers wild. Then all was new in life's bewitching morn, And hope—ah, fair enchantress! gaily smil'd.

Oh! then, what airy visions of delight, Beguil'd my youthful heart in ev'ry grove; Deluding fancy pictur'd to my sight The fairy-land of happiness and love!

But now, for me in vain the flow'rs expand, And leaves unfolding, dress the woods anew; I go, a wanderer, to some distant land, And bid my native hills—a last adieu!