Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPRING, by HANNES HAFSTEIN



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SPRING, by                    
First Line: The woods have wakened, birch and oak are gay
Last Line: And flowers abound.
Subject(s): Spring


THE woods have wakened, birch and oak are gay,
The warbling birds have sought the bowers.
And zephyrs fondle tenderly in play
The leaves and flowers.

I would that I could move thee, forest fair,
To mountainside and dale and lea.
I'd clothe those homeland places bleak and bare
But dear to me.

I would I were an ocean current grand
And warm as beats my pulse in spring.
I'd circle round thy shores, dear fatherland,
And blessings bring.

O, could I, like a balmy wind convey
The breath of spring from fell to sound.
All snows should then forever melt away
And flowers abound.





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