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John Dryden - A Song To A Fair Young Lady Going Out Of Town In The Spring
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1.
Ask not the cause why sullen spring 
So long delays her flowers to bear;
Why warbling birds forget to sing,
And winter storms invert the year;
Chloris is gone, and Fate provides
To make it spring where she resides.

2.
Chloris is gone, the cruel fair;
She cast not back a pitying eye;
But left her lover in despair,
To sigh, to languish, and to die:
Ah, how can those fair eyes endure
To give the wounds they will not cure!

3.
Great god of love, why hast thou made
A face that can all hearts command,
That all religions can invade,
And change the laws of every land?
Where thou hadst plac`d such pow`r before,
Thou shouldst have made her mercy more.

4.
When Chloris to the temple comes,
Adoring crowds before her fall;
She can restore the dead from tombs,
And ev`ry life but mine recall.
I only am by love designed
To be the victim for mankind.
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