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lirik lagu richard mitchley - the longest day by william wordsworth

let us quit the leafy arbor
and the torrent murmuring by;
for the sun is in his harbor
weary of the open sky

evening now unbinds the fetters
fashioned by the glowing light;
all that breathe are thankful debtors
to the harbinger of night

yet by some grave thoughts attended
eve renews her calm career;
for the day that now is ended
is the longest of the year

dora! sport, as now thou sportest
on this platform, light and free;
take thy bliss, while longest, shortest
arе indifferent to thee!

who would check thе happy feeling
that inspires the linnet’s song?
who would stop the swallow, wheeling
on her pinions swift and strong?

yet at this impressive season
words which tenderness can speak
from the truths of homely reason
might exalt the loveliest cheek;
and, while shades to shades succeeding
steal the landscape from the sight
i would urge this moral pleading
last forerunner of “good night!”

summer ebbs; — each day that follows
is a reflux from on high
tending to the darksome hollows
where the frosts of winter lie

he who governs the creation
in his providence, assigned
such a gradual declination
to the life of human kind

yet we mark it not; — fruits redden
fresh flowers blow, as flowers have blown
and the heart is loth to deaden
hopes that she so long hath known

be thou wiser, youthful maiden!
and when thy decline shall come
let not dowers, or boughs fruit~laden
hide the knowledge of thy doom

now, even now, ere wrapped in slumber
fix thine eyes upon the sea
that absorbs time, sp~ce, and number;
look thou to eternity!
follow thou the flowing river
on whose breast are thither borne
all deceived, and each deceiver
through the gates of night and morn;

through the year’s successive portals;
through the bounds which many a star
marks, not mindless of frail mortals
when his light returns from far

thus when thou with time hast travelled
toward the mighty gulf of things
and the mazy stream unravelled
with thy best imaginings;

think, if thou on beauty leanest
think how pitiful that stay
did not virtue give the meanest
charms superior to decay

duty, like a strict preceptor
sometimes frowns, or seems to frown;
choose her thistle for thy sceptre
while youth’s roses are thy crown

grasp it, — if thou shrink and tremble
fairest damsel of the green
thou wilt lack the only symbol
that proclaims a genuine queen;
and ensures those palms of honor
which selected spirits wear
bending low before the donor
lord of heaven’s unchanging year!

- lirik lagu richard mitchley

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