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First Line: When the spring's elysian
Last Line: Of the cherry trees a-bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Fruit; Smells; Spring; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


WHEN the spring's elysian
Vision
Nacres with the earlier dawn,
'T is the custom olden
Holden
Of the folks in fair Nippon,
Woodlands o'er to wander,
Ponder
On the web from May-day's loom,
In delight inditing,
Writing
Of the cherry trees a-bloom.

Every tree, a flowery
Houri
Rosy-white in azure air,
Breathes its odor fragrant,
Vagrant
To the zephyrs idling there;
All its boughs dew-wetted,
Fretted,
Dimple o'er each petalled plume,
Softly swaying, playing,
Spraying
In a radiant morn of bloom.

Nature's self, another
Mother,
Takes her children to her arms
As they trace her face's
Graces
In the cherry's glowing charms;
Sets them a completer
Metre;
Send her very soul to illume;
Till they clearly, cheerly,
Dearly
Hymn the shimmering trees a-bloom.

Ah, that dainty haunting
Chaunting
Echoes joy-bells all the year,
Though no bard rehearses
Verses,
Though no cherry tree's a-near;
Holding e'er that pleasant
Present,
Never seeking doubtful doom,
They no morrow's sorrow
Borrow
For some bud not yet a-bloom.

So, though world a-weary,
Dreary
Autumn rain and winter snow
Leave the land a-lying
Dying,
Ne'er a leaf nor cherry blow,
Still their hearts go lightened,
Brightened
By the blossom, tint, perfume,
By the slender, tender
Splendor
Of the cherry trees a-bloom.





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