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THE PROMISE OF SPRING by ANNIE MATHESON

First Line: O DAY OF GOD, THOU BRINGEST BACK
Last Line: HIS SWEET AND SILENT WAYS.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; LOVE; ROSES; SPRING;
O DAY of God, thou bringest back
The singing of the birds,
With music for the hearts that lack,
More musical than words!

Thou meltest now the frozen deep
Where dreaming love lay bound,
Thou wakest life in buds asleep,
And joy in skies that frowned.

Not yet may almond-blossoms dare
A wintry world to bless;
Still do the trees their beauty wear
Of glorious nakedness:

But clouds are riven with the light
Of old unclouded days,
And Love unfolds to longing sight
His sweet and silent ways.



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