Hark how the Songsters of the Grove
Sing Anthems to the God of Love.
Hark how each am’rous winged Pair
With Love’s Great Praises fill the Air.
Chorus:
On ev’ry Side the charming Sound
Does from the hollow Woods rebound.
Love in their little Veins inspires
Their chearful Notes, their soft Desires:
While Heat makes Buds or Blossoms spring,
Those pretty Couples love and sing.
Chorus with Flutes:
But Winter puts out their Desire,
And half the Year they want Love’s Fire.
Full Chorus:
But ah how much are our Delights more dear!
For only Human-kind love all the Year.
From: Shadwell, Thomas, The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater, 1736, Printed for W. Feales: London, p. 27.
(https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hFxWAAAAYAAJ)
Date: 1678
By: Thomas Shadwell (c1642-1692)
From Troubles of The World 
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