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FOR MUSIC by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY

First Line: O SINGER, CANST THOU SUMMON UP
Last Line: SO LONG AGO? -- THEN SING!
Subject(s): HEARTS; SCIENCE; SINGING & SINGERS; SPRING; SCIENTISTS;

O singer, canst thou summon up
The early blue-bird's wing?
The pang of those uncertain days
That swoon with unborn spring?

O singer, canst thou summon up
The crimson of the rose,
The silver gloom of April dawns,
The breathless unrepose;

The yearning in the dark divine,
Deep woods, a-bloom and dumb,
The starry, tear-blurred nights of May
That bring delirium?

O singer, canst thou summon up
In music all the spring
Whose crowding incense caught my heart
So long ago? -- Then sing!



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