Весна и зима: The winter of life - Роберт Бернс

Robert Burns (1759–1796).
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics.

The Winter of Life

BUT lately seen in gladsome green,
The woods rejoic’d the day,
Thro’ gentle showers, the laughing flowers
In double pride were gay:
But now our joys are fled
On winter blasts awa;
Yet maiden May, in rich array,
Again shall bring them a’.

But my white pow, nae kindly thowe
Shall melt the snaws of Age;
My trunk of eild, but buss or beild,
Sinks in Time’s wintry rage.
Oh, Age has weary days,
And nights o’ sleepless pain:
Thou golden time, o’ Youthfu’ prime,
Why comes thou not again!

Валерий,
Если выбор рифмы «дню-дню» связан с рифмой “day-day” в первом четверостишии приведенной Вами версии оригинала, то – вообще-то, до сих пор считалось, что у Бернса там “day-gay”… :)

С уважением,
Никита