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BEARERS OF HONEY BASKETS, by                    
First Line: When chill of winter yields to fragrant spring
Last Line: All the depressed, their cares and toils to spurn.


("Honey baskets" is a chinese term for "garbage pails".)

When chill of winter yields to fragrant spring
When snows recede and storm-winds seek the pole --
When April's choristers all hearts console
And every creature feels the urge to sing --
When brimming lakes are bluer than the sky
And cheery is the music of the stream,
When stolid clod and rocky hillsides dream,
What urgent need of poet's ear and eye?
To sense the grandeur of the thunderstorm,
To read sublimity in battles' loss,
To soar on eagle's wings the Gulf across
To lift the veil on human hopes forlorn --
This is the poet's role; of him may learn
All the depressed, their cares and toils to spurn.





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