IV

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Dirge for the Year

January gray is here,

Like a sexton by her grave;

February bears the bier,

March with grief doth howl and rave,

And April weeps—but, ye Hours!

Follow with May's fairest flowers.

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