The Seasons

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Come all you lads and lasses, all
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 you give attention
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To these few lines I'm about to 
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write here
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'Tis of the four seasons of the 
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year that I shall mention
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Beauty of all things doth appear

[Verse]
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And now you are young and all in 
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your prosperity
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Come cheer up your hearts and 
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revive like the spring
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Join off in pairs like the birds
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 in February
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St. Valentine's Day it forth do 
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bring

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[Verse]
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Then cometh spring, which all the
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 land doth nourish
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The fields are beginning to be 
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decked with green
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The trees put forth their buds and
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 the blossoms they do flourish
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The tender blades of corn on the 
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earth could be seen

[Verse]
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Don't you see the little lambs by 
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the dams a-playing?
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The cuckoo is singing in the 
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shady grove
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The flowers they are springing, the
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 maids they go a-Maying
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In love, all hearts seem now to move

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[Verse]
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Then cometh autumn, with the sun 
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so hot and piercing
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The sportsman goes forth with his 
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dog and his gun
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To fetch down the woodcock, the 
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partridge and the pheasant
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For health and for profit, as well
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 as for fun

[Verse]
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Behold, with loaded apple trees 
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the farmer is befriended
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They will full up his casks that 
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have long laid dry
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All nature seems so weary now, her 
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task is nearly ended
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And more of the seasons will come
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 by and by

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[Verse]
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When night comes on, with song and
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 tale, we pass the wintry hours
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By keeping up a cheerful heart, we 
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hope for better days
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We tend the cattle, sow the seed, 
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give work unto the ploughers
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With patience wait 'til winter 
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yields, before the sun's fair rays

[Verse]
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And so the world goes 'round and 
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'round, every time and season
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Pleasure and profit crowns the 
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passage of the year
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And so through every time of life,
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 to him who acts with reason
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The beauty of all things doth appear

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