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AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 1. PREMONITION by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN

First Line: WHERE DOES THE WIND FROM THE WILDING BLOW
Last Line: CAN APRIL WONDER BE FAR BEHIND?
Subject(s): MEMORY; SPRING;

Where does the wind from the wilding blow
Troubling the dream-caught woods of dawn
With hushed remembrance of woven music
Out of the shadowy gates of horn?

Under the still-fringed water-meadows
Colour is veining the grassy ways.
Over the dove-clad clouds of winter
A lark's cry falls through the ringing haze.

Wind and water and star-paled heaven
Mingle in colour and whisper of wind.
Earth and air call unto the Father.
Can April wonder be far behind?



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