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FOREIGN SPRING by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON

First Line: THE CHARLOCK AND THE HEMLOCK FLOWERS
Last Line: I PAUSE AWHILE AND SIGH.
Subject(s): SPRING;

THE charlock and the hemlock flowers
Have hung their laces o'er the green;
The buttercups are bright and sheen
As though the Spring were ours.

But through the poplar-rank there shines
The white interminable way;
And down the hill the budding vines
Go softly gloved in grey.

Amid a purer loftier sky
The foreign sun burns far and bright:
...O mistier fields! O tenderer light!
I pause awhile and sigh.



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