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SPRING.
A SONNET.
How bountiful is Nature! how repleteWith quiet good, magnificence, and power!
Again the welcome winds of Spring blow sweet,
Rich with the odorous life of bud and flower:
Blest sunshine clothes the land,—the genial shower
Gives lavish largess to the quickening ground;
There's music 'mid the clouds, and every bower
Is resonant again with joyous sound!
Man only is discordant: he with pride
Laughs at her laws, and learns to disobey,—
Flings Love—Peace—Order—Rectitude aside,
And fills the world with clangour and dismay;
Yet she rebukes him with a tranquil face,—
Sustains him with her gifts, and soothes him with her grace.
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