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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BY THE SOUTH CANADIAN, by JOSEPH FRANCIS PAXTON
First Line: Down near the river's sands
Last Line: The promise of spring.
Subject(s): Spring
First Line: Down near the river's sands
Last Line: The promise of spring.
Subject(s): Spring
Down near the river's sands
Prodigally strewn for miles, on yonder side,
I saw scrub plum-thickets abloom,
And caught with delight their delicate scent.
I heard too, the tinkling chimes of many meadow larks.
Then crashed the cynic cawing of a crow,
Who, shrugging and bobbing, rasped
My nerves and every dulcet air that blew.
My spine with goose-flesh tremors was shaken
As if Fate's bleakness in the shadows lurking
Had fallen athwart the greening earth, --
The blossoming plum-trees:
The promise of Spring.
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