For a January Birthday
FLORENCE CONVERSE
WHY count the evanescent years?
Such empty pastime palls.
What quality of eld inheres
In linkèd numerals?
Away with mathematick fears!
Such empty pastime palls.
What quality of eld inheres
In linkèd numerals?
Away with mathematick fears!
Come prove the good old adage true: —
The more shall make more merry.
If every year be gay, and new,
And young as January, —
Better a many than a few.
The more shall make more merry.
If every year be gay, and new,
And young as January, —
Better a many than a few.
Methought I saw a robin’s wing
Among the budding trees!
What need of chilly lingering
Mid wintry reveries,
When life is at the edge of spring?
Among the budding trees!
What need of chilly lingering
Mid wintry reveries,
When life is at the edge of spring?