Versos English Garcilaso de la Vega To the Airs

English poem

To the Airs

by (1503–1536)

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Gentle airs, that on light wing Through the high woods softly sing In low murmurs! these sweet wreaths, Violets, blue-bells, woodbines, heaths, Rustic Idmon loves to throw To you thus in handfuls, so Temper you the heat of day, And the thin chaff blow away, When at noon his van again Winnows out the golden grain.