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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton - Sonnet XVIII
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ON HEARING OF THE DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON.
[Inscribed, with deep and earnest sympathy, to her Mother, The Countess of Carlisle.] 

SINCE in the pleasant time of opening flowers 
That flow`r, Her life, was doom`d to fade away,-- 
Since Her dear loss hath shaded lovely hours, 
And turn`d to mourning all the smiles of May,-- 
Henceforward when the warm soft breath of Spring 
Bids cowslips star the meadows, thick and sweet; 
When doves are in the green wood murmuring, 
And children wander with delighted feet; 
When, by their own rich beauty downward bent, 
Soft Guelder-roses hang their tufts of snow, 
And purple lilacs yield a fagrant scent, 
And bright laburnum droops its yellow bough;-- 
Let that Spring-time be welcomed with a sigh, 
For Her lamented Rake,--who was so young to die!
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