On Snow fall'n in Autumn, and dissolv'd by the Sun.
18th Century Nahum Tate EnglishOn Snow fall'n in Autumn, and dissolv'd by the Sun.
I.
NAture now stript of all her Summer-Dress, And modestly surmizing, 'twere unmeet For each rude Eye to view her Nakedness; Around her bare Limbs wraps this Snowy Sheet.
II.
The wanton Sun the slight-wrought Shroud removes T'embrace the naked Dame, whose fertile Womb Admits the lusty Paramour's warm Love's, And is made big with the fair Spring to come.