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SOLDIERS OF SPRING
What makes young Spring so glad?
He has put old Winter to flight
With his soldiery brave and bright,
Columns in purple clad,
Companies dressed in white,
Regiments eager and bold
In armour of gold.
He has put old Winter to flight
With his soldiery brave and bright,
Columns in purple clad,
Companies dressed in white,
Regiments eager and bold
In armour of gold.
By thousands from ambush teem
The crocus-troops;—they have won
The battle ere half begun;
See how their breastplates gleam
And their keen blades flash in the sun,
Who wide his gates doth fling
To the armies of Spring.
The crocus-troops;—they have won
The battle ere half begun;
See how their breastplates gleam
And their keen blades flash in the sun,
Who wide his gates doth fling
To the armies of Spring.
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