Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MARCH, by IDA PUTNEY RANSOM


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First Line: Must all the beauty
Last Line: To beauty and life.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers


Must all the beauty
Asleep 'neath the snow
Be called from its dreams by your voice?
Are you urged by the faith of the flowers?
And have you no choice?

Should daffodil fail
With her gold to appear,
Or tulip with bonnet of red,
Or any dear flower fail to come
Its fragrance to shed,

Would yours be the blame?
And a mantle of shame
Would you henceforth as penitent wear?
Would the earth's reveille nevermore
Be left in your care?

Then forth to your task,
'Tis God's bidding;
He works through your noise and your strife
To bring back the slumbering world
To beauty and life.





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