Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG, by ANN S. STEPHENS


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SONG, by                    
First Line: Let me perish in the early spring
Last Line: Pass gently with the flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wintherbotham, Ann


LET me perish in the early spring,
When thickets all are green;
When rosy buds are blossoming
Amid their tender sheen;
When the raindrops and the sunshine
Lie sleeping in the leaves;
And swallows haunt the thrifty vine,
That drapes the cottage eaves.

Let me perish in the early spring,
The childhood of the year;
I would not have a gloomy thing
Pass o'er my humble bier;
For when a broken heart gives way,
In such a world as ours,
'T is well to let the humble clay
Pass gently with the flowers.





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