[DX] Rydal Mere. Compare the Ode to Lycoris (pp. 145-148).—Ed.
UPON THE SAME OCCASION
Composed 1819.—Published 1820
One of the "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection."—Ed.
Departing summer hath assumed
An aspect tenderly illumed,
The gentlest look of spring;
That calls from yonder leafy shade
Unfaded, yet prepared to fade,