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THE FIRST BUD O' THE YEAR by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN

First Line: THERE WHISPERED IN MY EAR
Last Line: THAT SHALL THE OLD LOSS MEND.
Subject(s): GRAVES; GRIEF; WIND; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES; SORROW; SADNESS;
THERE whispered in my ear
A little tip-toe Wind:
"I know where you may find
The first bud o' the year."

I ran, outstripping Grief,
And soon the bud I found
Just peeping through the ground,
Wrapt in last year's leaf.

And so some hope may wend
Perchance unto my tomb
To find thereon a bloom
That shall the old loss mend.



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