Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPRING, by JOHN GALSWORTHY


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SPRING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come out! It's spring
Last Line: "the spring! The spring! Come out! Come out!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Spring


COME out! it's Spring!
The elm-trees! See! They're blossoming,
All crimson-painted! Here's a flower
Come open! Now with ev'ry hour
There'll be fresh pollen for that bee --
Oho! No longer sleepy he!

What song! What song
Those greening hedges breaks along!
God! There's performed in everything
A miracle of throat and wing.
Needs but a swallow to flit by
And print its pattern on the sky.

Oh! Smell this air!
The wind it wanders; everywhere
It plucks a scent. Ah! Exquisite
The ache of Spring that comes with it!
And whence it comes, or where it goes --
The troubling wind of Spring -- who knows?

All now is still!
The sunlight's level on the hill.
There goes a furry groundling. Run!
You Spring-created rascal, run!
And -- hark! The blackbird's evening shout:
"The Spring! The Spring! Come out! Come out!"





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