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GRAY APRIL by MARY FRANCES MARTIN

First Line: IS IT APRIL, THESE GRAY DAYS
Last Line: APRIL! APRIL! IS THIS YOU?
Subject(s): APRIL; RAIN; SPRING;
Is it April, these gray days
Wrapped in fog and fringed with rain?
All is lost in misty haze
Just beyond my window-pane.
The willows droop—dim, shadowy, gray,
And all my hills are hidden away.

Silvery threads of rain slip down
Slant-wise through the fragrant air,
Wisps of fog the maples crown,
Clinging, wraithlike, everywhere.
Gone the days of gold and blue,
April! April! Is this you?



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