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THE GLADNESS OF SPRING by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE

First Line: WHEN SPRING, WITH BLOSSOM-HAUNTED LANES
Last Line: COULD HUSH A SOUL'S DISCORDANT WORD?
Subject(s): BIRDS; SPRING;

WHEN Spring, with blossom-haunted lanes,
With sudden gusts of rippling rains,
Came dancing down the glad young year,
How soon my heart forgot its fear!

When I had heard the lyric note
That floated from the robin's throat,
How soon the sad song in my breast
Sought a deep silence, a deep rest!

Now who had dreamed the April rain
Could cleanse a heart of all its pain?
And who had thought one little bird
Could hush a soul's discordant word?



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