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I	A
Blithe friend blithe throstle Is it thou	B
Whom I at last again hear sing	C
Perched on thy old accustomed bough	B
Poet prophet of the Spring	C
Yes Singing as thou oft hast sung	D
I can see thee there among	D
The clustered branches of my leafless oak	E
Where thy plumage gray as it	F
Thou mightst unsuspected sit	F
Didst thou not thyself betray	G
With thy penetrating lay	G
Swelling thy mottled breast at each triumphant stroke	E
Wherefore warble half concealed	H
When thy notes are shaft and shield	H
And no hand that lives would slay	G
Singer of such a roundelay	G
Telling of thy presence thus	I
Be nor coy nor timorous	I
Sing loud Sing long	J
And let thy song	J
Usurp the air 'twixt earth and sky	A
Let it soar and sink and rally	G
Ripple low along the valley	G
Break against the fir trees high	A
Ofttimes pausing never dying	C
While we lean where fancy bids	K
Listening with half clos d lids	K
Unto the self same chant most sweet most satisfying	C
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II	A
Where hast thou been all the dumb winter days	L
When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers	M
Neither life nor love nor frolic	N
Only expanse melancholic	N
With never a note of thy exhilarating lays	L
But instead the raven's croak	E
Sluggish dawns and draggled hours	M
Gusts morose and callous showers	M
Underneath whose cutting stroke	E
Huddle the seasoned kine and even the robin cowers	M
Wast thou asleep in some snug hollow	G
Of my hybernating oak	E
Through the dripping weeks that follow	G
One another slow and soak	E
Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke	E
Did its waking awake thee	G
Or thou it with melody	G
Or together did ye both	O
Start from winter's sleep and sloth	O
And the self same sap that woke	E
Bole and branch and sets them budding	C
Is thy throat with rapture flooding	C
Or avoiding icy yoke	E
When golden leaves floated on silver meres	M
And pensive Autumn keeping back her tears	M
Nursed waning Summer in her quiet lap	P
Didst thou timely pinions flap	P
Fleeing from a land of loss	M
And with happy mates across	M
Ocean's restless ridges travel	G
To that lemon scented shore	Q
Where beneath a deep domed sky	A
Carven of lapis lazuli	G
Golden sunlight evermore	Q
Glistens against golden gravel	G
Nor ever a snowflake falls nor rain clouds wheel and ravel	G
Clime where I wandered once among	D
Ruins old with feelings young	D
Whither too I count to fly	A
When my songful seasons die	A
And with the self same spell which first when mine	R
Intensified my youth to temper my decline	R
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III	A
Wherefore dost thou sing and sing	C
Is it for sheer joy of singing	C
Is it to hasten lagging Spring	C
Or greet the Lenten lilies through turf and turf upspringing	C
Dost thou sing to earth or sky	C
Never comes but one reply	C
Carol faint carol high	C
Ringing ringing ringing	C
Are those iterated trills	M
For the down looking daffodils	M
That have strained and split their sheath	S
And are listening underneath	S
Or but music's prompting note	T
Whereunto the lambs may skip	U
Haply dost thou swell thy throat	T
Only to show thy craftsmanship	U
Wouldst thou pipe if none should hearken	R
If the sky should droop and darken	R
And as came the hills more close	M
Moody March to wooing Spring	C
Sudden turned a mouth morose	M
Unheeded wouldst unheeding sing	C
What is it rules thy singing season	R
Instinct that diviner reason	R
To which the thirst to know seemeth a sort of treason	R
If it be	G
Enough for me	G
And any motive for thy music I	C
Will not ask thee to impart	V
Letting my head play traitor to my heart	V
Too deeply questioning why	C
Sing for nothing if thou wilt	W
Or if thou for aught must sing	C
Sing unto thy anxious spouse	M
Sitting somewhere 'mong the boughs	M
In the nest that thou hast built	W
Underneath her close furled wing	C
Future carols fostering	C
Sing because it is thy bent	X
Sing to heighten thy content	X
Sing for secret none can guess	M
Sing for very uselessness	M
Sing for love of love and pleasure	Y
Unborn joy unfound treasure	Y
Rapture no words can reach yearning no thoughts can measure	Y
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IV	C
Why dost thou ever cease to sing	C
Singing is such sweet comfort who	Z
If he could sing the whole year through	Z
Would barter it for anything	C
Why do not thou and joy their reign assert	A2
Over winter death and hurt	A2
If thou forcest them to flee	G
They in turn will banish thee	G
Making life betwixt ye thus	M
Mutably monotonous	M
O why dost thou not perch and pipe perpetually	G
All the answer I do get	B2
Is louder madder music yet	B2
Thus rebuking Thou dost err	C2
I am no philosopher	Y
Only a poet forced to sing	C
When the cold gusts gather and go	C
When the earth stirs in its tomb	D2
And asudden witching Spring	C
Into her bosom sucks the snow	C
To give it back in thorn and cherry bloom	D2
When along the hedgerows twinkle	G
Roguish eyes of periwinkle	G
When with undulating glee	G
Yaffles scream from tree to tree	G
And on every bank are seen	R
Primroses that long have been	R
Lying in wait with ambushed eyes	M
To break forth when Winter flies	M
Joined by all things swift and sweet	E2
Following him with noiseless feet	E2
Pelting him with April showers	M
Chasing and chanting his defeat	E2
Till with undisputed flowers	M
Thronged are all the lanes to greet	E2
Dove like inspiring Spring many voiced Paraclete	E2
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V	G
Therefore glad bird warble and shrill and carol	G
Now that Earth whom winter stripped	E2
Putteth on her Spring apparel	G
Daintily woven gaily tipped	E2
Now that in the tussocked mead	E2
Lambkins one another jostle	G
Carol carol jocund throstle	G
Impregnating the air with thy melodious seed	E2
Which albeit scattered late	E2
Now will quickly germinate	E2
Giving us who waited long	C
Vernal harvest of ripe song	C
Which I do perceive was sent	E2
Nowise to deepen argument	E2
Rather to teach me how like thee	G
To merge doubt in melody	G
Sing sing away	G
All through the day	G
Lengthening out the twilight gray	G
And with thy trebles of delight	E2
Invade the threshold of the night	E2
Until felicity too high too deep	F2
Saturated senses steep	F2
And all that lives and loves subside to songless sleep	F2

Alfred Austin

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