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First Line: The fresh spring burgeons into bloom
Last Line: The skirts of immortality!
Subject(s): Spring


THE fresh spring burgeons into bloom --
And Earth with all her vernal charms
Lies like a queenly bride enclasped
Within her heavenly bridegroom's arms;

The storms that raved have sunk to peace;
Freed rivulets weave a blithesome lay,
And blissful Nature softly sings
Preludings of her perfect day!

Mean while there's not a breeze that thrills
Leaf, bud, and flower with genial kiss, --
Which does not breathe thy mystic hope,
Oh, soul of Palingenesis: --

Glance where we may, the symbols rise
Of loftier loves and lives to be: --
This marvellous spring-time seems to grasp
The skirts of immortality!





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