Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHEN SPRING COMES BACK, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER


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First Line: When spring comes back the violets lift
Last Line: Among the garden mazes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Violets


WHEN Spring comes back the violets lift
Their shyly hooded faces,
Where late the frozen snows adrift
Heaped high the woodland spaces.
When Spring comes back the sunbeams dance
On green leaves all a-quiver,
And grasses rally, spear and lance,
By rippling brook and river.

When Spring comes back the lilies haste,
What time the bells are ringing,
To bring their perfumes, pure and chaste,
From hallowed censers swinging.
Shine dim church aisles on Easter day
Beneath the lilied whiteness,
And happy children kneel and pray
Amid the serried brightness.

When Spring comes back a merry train,
Of merry wings come with her,
The robin and the wren again
Come gayly flitting hither;
The bluebird and the oriole,
The martin and the swallow.
"Away," they chant, "with grief and dole,
Here's spring, and summer 'll follow!"

When Spring comes back, when Spring comes back,
Chill winter will be over!
Erelong we'll hear the elfin drums
Where bees are deep in clover.
After we catch the swaying lilt
Of winds among the daisies,
And see the rose-cups' sweetness spilt
Among the garden mazes.





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