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EARLY SPRING.
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Once more the Heavenly PowerMakes all things new,
And domes the red-plow'd hills
With loving blue;
The blackbirds have their wills,
The throstles too.
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Opens a door in Heaven;From skies of glass
A Jacob's ladder falls
On greening grass,
And o'er the mountain-walls
Young angels pass.
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Before them fleets the shower,And burst the buds,
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And flash the floods;
The stars are from their hands
Flung thro' the woods,
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The woods with living airsHow softly fann'd,
Light airs from where the deep,
All down the sand,
Is breathing in his sleep,
Heard by the land.
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O follow, leaping blood,The season's lure!
O heart, look down and up
Serene, secure,
Warm as the crocus cup,
Like snowdrops, pure!
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Past, Future glimpse and fadeThro' some slight spell,
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Some far blue fell,
And sympathies, how frail,
In sound and smell!
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Till at thy chuckled note,Thou twinkling bird,
The fairy fancies range,
And, lightly stirr'd,
Ring little bells of change
From word to word.
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For now the Heavenly PowerMakes all things new,
And thaws the cold, and fills
The flower with dew;
The blackbirds have their wills,
The poets too.
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