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First Line: She sang a song of may for me
Last Line: As dim as autumn rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): May (month); Singing & Singers; Spring


SHE sang a song of May for me,
Wherein once more I heard
The mirth of my glad infancy --
The orchard's earliest bird --
The joyous breeze among the trees
New-clad in leaf and bloom,
And there the happy honey-bees
In dewy gleam and gloom.

So purely, sweetly on the sense
Of heart and spirit fell
Her song of Spring, its influence --
Still irresistible, --
Commands me here -- with eyes ablur --
To mate her bright refrain,
Though I but shed a rhyme for her
As dim as Autumn rain.





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