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ADMONITION FOR SPRING by LOUIS ALEXANDER MACKAY

First Line: LOOK AWAY NOW FROM THE HIGH LONESOME HILLS
Last Line: THE HEAVY HYACINTH REMEMBERING DEATH.
Subject(s): HYACINTHS; SPRING;

Look away now from the high lonesome hills
So hard on the hard sky since the swift shower;
See where among the restless daffodils
The hyacinth sets his melancholy tower.

Draw in your heart from vain adventurings;
Float slowly, swimmer, slowly drawing breath.
See, in this wild green foam of growing things
The heavy hyacinth remembering death.



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