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One swallow does not make spring.
One swallow does not make spring.
It's surely summer. for there's a swallow:
Come one swallow, his mate will follow,
The bird race read more
It's surely summer. for there's a swallow:
Come one swallow, his mate will follow,
The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.
There goes the swallow,--
Could we but follow!
Hasty swallow, stay,
Point us out read more
There goes the swallow,--
Could we but follow!
Hasty swallow, stay,
Point us out the way;
Look back swallow, turn back swallow, stop swallow.
When autumn scatters his departing gleams,
Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play
The swallow-people; and toss'd wide read more
When autumn scatters his departing gleams,
Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play
The swallow-people; and toss'd wide around,
O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift,
The feather'd eddy floats; rejoicing once,
Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire.
The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your
lordship.
The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your
lordship.
The swallow is come!
The swallow is come!
O, fair are the seasons, and light
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The swallow is come!
The swallow is come!
O, fair are the seasons, and light
Are the days that she brings,
With her dusky wings,
And her bosom snowy white!
Down comes rain drop, bubble follows;
On the house-top one by one
Flock the synagogue of swallows,
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Down comes rain drop, bubble follows;
On the house-top one by one
Flock the synagogue of swallows,
Met to vote that autumn's gone.
The swallow sweeps
The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.
The swallow sweeps
The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.
One swallow alone does not make the summer.
[Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]
One swallow alone does not make the summer.
[Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]