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LIGHT LINGERS LONG by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT

First Line: LIGHT LINGERS LONG AS WINTER WEARS TO SPRING
Last Line: LIGHT LINGERS LONG.
Subject(s): LIGHT; SEASONS;
Light lingers long as Winter wears to Spring,
And O my heart can hear those choirs sing,
That break the brief spell of a Summer's night
And herald days that swoon at noon of light.
Now, though around my door cold March winds throng,
Light lingers long.

I wake and laugh to see the yellow sun
An hour when winter nights had long to run:
And when I see where once I played the mole,
As hours of insight lengthen in my soul,
I will not chide a world of pain and wrong, --
Light lingers long.



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