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THE MORNING WALK by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN

First Line: THE BIRDS ARE BUILDING IN THE BUDDING TREES
Last Line: AND I, ENRAPTURED, ANSWER THEM AT LAST.

The birds are building in the budding trees
And making music wonderfully sweet
To me as I pass down the village street,
Stirred by innumerable memories
Of other days as beautiful as these.
The pansies lift their lovely eyes to meet
The glad smile of the summer sun, and greet
Me with a fragrant whisper in the breeze.

Into the garden of my heart I stray
And there I find the flowers of yesterday,
The sunlight of the summer and the past, --
Remembered voices sing to me of love,
As from the heaven glorious above,
And I, enraptured, answer them at last.



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