Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BLOSSOM-TIME, by ZERA E. SETTERSTROM



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BLOSSOM-TIME, by                    
First Line: O blossom-time is on the hill
Last Line: Till lo! The golden, ripened fruit!
Subject(s): Spring


O blossom-time is on the hill --
The drifting air comes strangely sweet
As bird and butterfly at will
Come trooping out, the Spring to greet!

What reck they of the April rain?
The fleeting cloud of sprightly May?
Of every flower they take their fill
But leave it kist by roundelay!

O when I see the trees lift high
Their arms against a beckoning sky,
I know they hear in striving sod
Through root and branch, the call of God!

O blossom-time, how sweet, how brief
Your glowing color, greening leaf!
But patient hours bright dreams transmute --
Till lo! the golden, ripened fruit!





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