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I HAVE SEEN THE SPRING', by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing is new, I have seen the spring too often
Last Line: Nothing is lost but a few years from my life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Spring


Nothing is new, I have seen the spring too often;
There have been other plum-trees white as this one
Like a silvery cloud tethered beside the road,
I have been waked from sleep too many times
By birds at dawn boasting their love is beautiful.
The grass-blades gleam in the wind, nothing is changed.
Nothing is lost, it is all as it used to be,
Unopened lilacs are still as deep a purple,
The boughs of the elm are dancing still in a veil of tiny leaves,
Nothing is lost but a few years from my life.





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