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IN LATE SPRING by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL

First Line: I MARK ME HOW TO-DAY THE MAPLES WEAR
Last Line: AND TAKE THY PURPLE OF THE TIRING HOURS.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; GARDENS & GARDENING; SPRING;

I mark me how to-day the maples wear
A look of inward burgeoning and I feel
Colours I see not in the naked air,
Lance-keen, and with the little blue of steel.

No bud is forth nor green abroad and yet
Air seems to wait with raiment for earth's flowers;
Come, then, ungarmented, thou violet,
And take thy purple of the tiring hours.



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