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First Line: Today 'tis spring; the hawthorn tree
Last Line: Each other, she and I.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Spring; Male-female Relations


TO-DAY 'tis Spring; the hawthorn-tree
Is green with buds; to-day maybe
She whom I think of thinks of me,
And finds the thought enough;
And when those buds are grown to leaves,
That thought wherein she scarce believes
Will grow perhaps to love.

Soon as the flowers of May appear,
For love of me she will draw near,
And hoping, dreading, I shall hear
Perhaps, and own my bliss.
Awhile beneath the hawthorn sweet
Our o'erstrained quickening hearts will beat,
Our purple thirsting mouths will meet
And revel in their kiss.

But when pink May becomes red June,
And summer sounds a glorious tune,
Under some lordlier tree aswoon
Together we shall lie.
And then to-day's half-timid thought,
May's thrill and kiss will seem as nought
To the full joy we shall have taught
Each other, she and I.





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