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Daughter of Heaven and Earth coy Spring	A
With sudden passion languishing	A
Maketh all things softly smile	B
Painteth pictures mile on mile	B
Holds a cup with cowslip wreaths	C
Whence a smokeless incense breathes	D
Girls are peeling the sweet willow	E
Poplar white and Gilead tree	F
And troops of boys	G
Shouting with whoop and hilloa	E
And hip hip three times three	F
The air is full of whistlings bland	H
What was that I heard	I
Out of the hazy land	H
Harp of the wind or song of bird	I
Or clapping of shepherd's hands	J
Or vagrant booming of the air	K
Voice of a meteor lost in day	L
Such tidings of the starry sphere	M
Can this elastic air convey	L
Or haply 't was the cannonade	L
Of the pent and darkened lake	N
Cooled by the pendent mountain's shade	L
Whose deeps till beams of noonday break	N
Afflicted moan and latest hold	L
Even unto May the iceberg cold	L
Was it a squirrel's pettish bark	O
Or clarionet of jay or hark	O
Where yon wedged line the Nestor leads	P
Steering north with raucous cry	Q
Through tracts and provinces of sky	Q
Every night alighting down	R
In new landscapes of romance	S
Where darkling feed the clamorous clans	T
By lonely lakes to men unknown	U
Come the tumult whence it will	E
Voice of sport or rush of wings	V
It is a sound it is a token	W
That the marble sleep is broken	W
And a change has passed on things	V
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Beneath the calm within the light	L
A hid unruly appetite	L
Of swifter life a surer hope	X
Strains every sense to larger scope	X
Impatient to anticipate	L
The halting steps of aged Fate	L
Slow grows the palm too slow the pearl	E
When Nature falters fain would zeal	E
Grasp the felloes of her wheel	E
And grasping give the orbs another whirl	E
Turn swiftlier round O tardy ball	E
And sun this frozen side	L
Bring hither back the robin's call	E
Bring back the tulip's pride	L
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Why chidest thou the tardy Spring	A
The hardy bunting does not chide	L
The blackbirds make the maples ring	A
With social cheer and jubilee	F
The redwing flutes his o ka lee	F
The robins know the melting snow	E
The sparrow meek prophetic eyed	L
Her nest beside the snow drift weaves	Y
Secure the osier yet will hide	L
Her callow brood in mantling leaves	Y
And thou by science all undone	W
Why only must thy reason fail	E
To see the southing of the sun	W
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As we thaw frozen flesh with snow	E
So Spring will not foolish fond	L
Mix polar night with tropic glow	E
Nor cloy us with unshaded sun	W
Nor wanton skip with bacchic dance	S
But she has the temperance	Z
Of the gods whereof she is one	W
Masks her treasury of heat	L
Under east winds crossed with sleet	L
Plants and birds and humble creatures	A2
Well accept her rule austere	M
Titan born to hardy natures	A2
Cold is genial and dear	M
As Southern wrath to Northern right	L
Is but straw to anthracite	L
As in the day of sacrifice	B2
When heroes piled the pyre	C2
The dismal Massachusetts ice	B2
Burned more than others' fire	C2
So Spring guards with surface cold	L
The garnered heat of ages old	L
Hers to sow the seed of bread	L
That man and all the kinds be fed	L
And when the sunlight fills the hours	A2
Dissolves the crust displays the flowers	A2
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The world rolls round mistrust it not	L
Befalls again what once befell	E
All things return both sphere and mote	L
And I shall hear my bluebird's note	L
And dream the dream of Auburn dell	E
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When late I walked in earlier days	D2
All was stiff and stark	O
Knee deep snows choked all the ways	D2
In the sky no spark	O
Firm braced I sought my ancient woods	E2
Struggling through the drifted roads	F2
The whited desert knew me not	L
Snow ridges masked each darling spot	L
The summer dells by genius haunted	L
One arctic moon had disenchanted	L
All the sweet secrets therein hid	L
By Fancy ghastly spells undid	L
Eldest mason Frost had piled	L
With wicked ingenuity	F
Swift cathedrals in the wild	L
The piny hosts were sheeted ghosts	G2
In the star lit minster aisled	L
I found no joy the icy wind	L
Might rule the forest to his mind	L
Who would freeze in frozen brakes	H2
Back to books and sheltered home	I2
And wood fire flickering on the walls	J2
To hear when 'mid our talk and games	K2
Without the baffled north wind calls	J2
But soft a sultry morning breaks	H2
The cowslips make the brown brook gay	L
A happier hour a longer day	L
Now the sun leads in the May	L
Now desire of action wakes	H2
And the wish to roam	I2
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The caged linnet in the Spring	A
Hearkens for the choral glee	F
When his fellows on the wing	A
Migrate from the Southern Sea	F
When trellised grapes their flowers unmask	L2
And the new born tendrils twine	M2
The old wine darkling in the cask	L2
Feels the bloom on the living vine	M2
And bursts the hoops at hint of Spring	A
And so perchance in Adam's race	N2
Of Eden's bower some dream like trace	N2
Survived the Flight and swam the Flood	L
And wakes the wish in youngest blood	L
To tread the forfeit Paradise	B2
And feed once more the exile's eyes	O2
And ever when the happy child	L
In May beholds the blooming wild	L
And hears in heaven the bluebird sing	A
'Onward ' he cries 'your baskets bring	A
In the next field is air more mild	L
And o'er yon hazy crest is Eden's balmier Spring '	-
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Not for a regiment's parade	L
Nor evil laws or rulers made	L
Blue Walden rolls its cannonade	L
But for a lofty sign	M2
Which the Zodiac threw	P2
That the bondage days are told	L
And waters free as winds shall flow	E
Lo how all the tribes combine	M2
To rout the flying foe	E
See every patriot oak leaf throws	Q2
His elfin length upon the snows	Q2
Not idle since the leaf all day	L
Draws to the spot the solar ray	L
Ere sunset quarrying inches down	R
And half way to the mosses brown	R
While the grass beneath the rime	I2
Has hints of the propitious time	I2
And upward pries and perforates	R2
Through the cold slab a thousand gates	R2
Till green lances peering through	P2
Bend happy in the welkin blue	P2
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April cold with dropping rain	S2
Willows and lilacs brings again	T2
The whistle of returning birds	U2
And trumpet lowing of the herds	U2
The scarlet maple keys betray	L
What potent blood hath modest May	L
What fiery force the earth renews	V2
The wealth of forms the flush of hues	V2
Joy shed in rosy waves abroad	L
Flows from the heart of Love the Lord	L
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Hither rolls the storm of heat	L
I feel its finer billows beat	L
Like a sea which me infolds	V2
Heat with viewless fingers moulds	V2
Swells and mellows and matures	V2
Paints and flavours and allures	V2
Bird and brier inly warms	V2
Still enriches and transforms	V2
Gives the reed and lily length	W2
Adds to oak and oxen strength	W2
Boils the world in tepid lakes	V2
Burns the world yet burnt remakes	V2
Enveloping heat enchanted robe	X2
Wraps the daisy and the globe	X2
Transforming what it doth infold	L
Life out of death new out of old	L
Painting fawns' and leopards' fells	V2
Seethes the gulf encrimsoning shells	V2
Fires garden with a joyful blaze	V2
Of tulips in the morning's rays	V2
The dead log touched bursts into leaf	Y2
The wheat blade whispers of the sheaf	Y2
What god is this imperial Heat	L
Earth's prime secret sculpture's seat	L
Doth it bear hidden in its heart	L
Water line patterns of all art	L
All figures organs hues and graces	V2
Is it Daedalus is it Love	Z2
Or walks in mask almighty Jove	Z2
And drops from Power's redundant horn	A3
All seeds of beauty to be born	A3
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Where shall we keep the holiday	L
And duly greet the entering May	L
Too strait and low our cottage doors	V2
And all unmeet our carpet floors	V2
Nor spacious court nor monarch's hall	E
Suffice to hold the festival	E
Up and away where haughty woods	V2
Front the liberated floods	V2
We will climb the broad backed hills	V2
Hear the uproar of their joy	B3
We will mark the leaps and gleams	V2
Of the new delivered streams	V2
And the murmuring rivers of sap	C3
Mount in the pipes of the trees	V2
Giddy with day to the topmost spire	D3
Which for a spike of tender green	E3
Bartered its powdery cap	C3
And the colours of joy in the bird	L
And the love in its carol heard	L
Frog and lizard in holiday coats	V2
And turtle brave in his golden spots	V2
We will hear the tiny roar	F3
Of the insects evermore	F3
While cheerful cries of crag and plain	S2
Reply to the thunder of river and main	S2
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As poured the flood of the ancient sea	V2
Spilling over mountain chains	V2
Bending forests as bends the sedge	G3
Faster flowing o'er the plains	V2
A world	L