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IN APRIL by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND

First Line: THERE IS A WAY THAT CALLS TO ME
Last Line: WHITE PLUM, WHITE SEA?
Subject(s): APRIL;
There is a way that calls to me
When April comes,
Of sea and sand and petalled trees
Of surf-white plums.

And I must walk the dunes and watch
Each wave-bough break,
See the white petals of the plum
With new life shake.

And as the wind grows wild and strong
Whirling in ecstasy,
O which can be the lovelier,
White plum, white sea?



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