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First Line: When the soft breath of spring goes forth
Last Line: Where tears of sorrow never flowed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Spring


WHEN the soft breath of Spring goes forth,
Far o'er the mountains of the North,
How soon those wastes of dazzling snow
With life, and bloom, and beauty glow!

Then bursts the verdure of the plains,
Then break the streams from icy chains;
And the glad rein-deer seeks no more
Amidst deep snows his mossy store.

Then the dark pinewood's boughs are seen
Fringed tenderly with living green;
And roses, in their brightest dyes,
By Lapland's founts and lakes arise.

Thus, in a moment, from the gloom
And the cold fetters of the tomb,
Thus shall the blest Redeemer's voice
Call forth His servants to rejoice.

For He, whose word is truth, hath said,
His power to life shall wake the dead,
And summon those He loves on high,
To "put on immortality!"

Then, all its transient sufferings o'er,
On wings of light the soul shall soar,
Exulting, to that blest abode,
Where tears of sorrow never flowed.





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