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On the Spring

Index: INDEX/BCMSV/1114

Details

Type: Index

Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/1114 (Lt 15 )

Title: On the Spring

Author: Drummond, William; of Hawthornden

Date(s): 1623 (published)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/99069

Reference

Manuscript: Lt 15

Pages: p.1

Description

Notes: (New doth the)

First lines: New doth the sun appear

The mountain's snows decay

Last lines: & there att that immortal sun's bright rays

Deck thee with flowrs which fear not rage of days

Length: 11

Verse form: 1 stanza, ababccbddee

Contents: Apparently urging a friend, in time of Spring, to abandon his spiritual

winter and think of the springtime of Heaven