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THE SPRING OF THE YEAR by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM

Poet Analysis

First Line: GONE WERE BUT THE WINTER COLD
Last Line: AT THE SPRING OF THE YEAR.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

GONE were but the winter cold,
And gone were but the snow,
I could sleep in the wild woods
Where primroses blow.

Cold 's the snow at my head,
And cold at my feet;
And the finger of death 's at my e'en,
Closing them to sleep.

Let none tell my father
Or my mother so dear, --
I'll meet them both in heaven
At the spring of the year.



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