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SPRING.
Winter, that hung around us as a cloud,
Rolls slowly backward; from her icy sleep
Th' awakened earth starts up and shouts aloud,
The waters leap
Rolls slowly backward; from her icy sleep
Th' awakened earth starts up and shouts aloud,
The waters leap
From rock to rock with a tumultuous mirth,
With Bacchanalian madness and loud song;
From the fond bosom of the teeming earth
All young things throng;
With Bacchanalian madness and loud song;
From the fond bosom of the teeming earth
All young things throng;
And hopes rise bubbling from the deepest fountain
Of man's half-frozen heart. Faith trustingly
Rests its broad base on God, as doth a mountain
Upon the sea.
Of man's half-frozen heart. Faith trustingly
Rests its broad base on God, as doth a mountain
Upon the sea.
Affections pure, and human sympathies
The summer sun of charity relumes,
That fire divine that warms and vivifies,
But not consumes.
The summer sun of charity relumes,
That fire divine that warms and vivifies,
But not consumes.
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Love, vernal music, charity, hope, faith,
Warm the cold earth, fair visions from on high,
Teaching to scorn and trample fear of death;
For naught can die.
Warm the cold earth, fair visions from on high,
Teaching to scorn and trample fear of death;
For naught can die.
S. E. de Vere.
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