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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRING SONG, by ESTELLE MAY HURLL
First Line: Do you smell the coming of spring in the breeze?
Last Line: Like sunny spring days in the great out-of-doors?
Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College
First Line: Do you smell the coming of spring in the breeze?
Last Line: Like sunny spring days in the great out-of-doors?
Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College
DO you smell the coming of spring in the breeze?
The strange, sweet tang of the upturned soil,
The fragrance distilled from the budding trees
While grass grows greener and ferns uncoil?
Can you think of anything nicer to smell
Than little brown buds just beginning to swell?
Do you see the coming of spring in the sky?
The lengthened light and the deepened blue,
The delicate rain-clouds hurrying by
To water the gardens and pass from view?
Can you think of any more gladdening sight
Than April's bright sun putting winter to flight?
Do you hear the coming of spring in the air?
The robins' whistle at break of day,
The honk of the geese as they northward fare,
The bluebirds calling the coming of May?
Of all the sweet sounds you ever have heard
Can any one match the spring song of the bird?
Do you feel the coming of spring in your heart?
The ancient call of the wakening earth
To come out in the open and have your part
In the wondrous rapture of her rebirth?
What tonic the care-fretted spirit restores
Like sunny spring days in the great out-of-doors?
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