In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Alfred Tennyson
Love
In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Alfred Tennyson
Locksley Hall. Line 19.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.