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A PURITAN IN EXILE CONFRONTS A SPRING DAY (HONOLULU), by                    
First Line: Spring comes a heedless wanton to this town
Last Line: Spring wears the blossoms of an apple tree.
Subject(s): Spring


Spring comes a heedless wanton to this town.
Flaunting herself in street and alley-way;
The red and yellow tatters of her gown
Flutter from every bush and tree today.
Where may eyes tired with too much colour turn?
These crimsons, yellows, purples, rioting
In this relentless tropic sunlight, burn
Eyes long accustomed to a virgin spring.
And one who lives upon a coral street
That runs, flower-canopied, from hills to sea,
May yearn for a sparse land where, coolly sweet,
Spring wears the blossoms of an apple tree.





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