A beautiful song for a gloomy day

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The Peacefull Westerne Winde


The peacefull westerne winde
The winter stormes hath tam'd,
And nature in each kinde
The kinde heat hath inflam'd.
The forward buds so sweetly breathe
Out of their earthly bowers,
That heav'n which viewes their pompe beneath,
Would faine be deckt with flowers.

See how the morning smiles
On her bright easterne hill,
And with soft steps beguiles
Them that lie slumbring still.
The musicke-Ioving birds are come
From cliffes and rockes unknowne;
To see the trees and briers blome,
That late were over-flowne.

What Saturne did destroy,
Loves Queene revives againe;
And now her naked boy
Doth in the fields remaine:
Where he such pleasing change doth view
In ev'ry living thing,
As if the world were born anew
To gratifie the Spring.


Thomas Campion: from Two bookes of ayres (1613)