- Spring! beautiful Spring!
- Come to this desolate, dreary world of ours,
- Come with thy breath of balm thy gift of flowers,
- They gentle birds that sing
- In sunny bowers;
- Come with thy gladsome hours,
- Spring! beautiful spring!
- Earth is aweary of its winter sleep,
- And longs to waken into life again;
- To see the budding vines and grasses creep
- Along the cheerful plain;
- Oh! beautiful Spring!
- These and like beauties in thy gentle train!
- Come with thy children three
- The stormy March that weepth all the day
- The fickle April, and the flowery May,
- O! It were a happiness to see
- Far up on high,
- The clear blue sky,
- Like a bright beauteous and eternal thing,
- Spring! beautiful Spring!
- What time the primrose, with a keen delight,
- Comes peeping upward from the fallow ground;
- What time the swallow, in his rapid flight
- About the barn door, circleth round and round;
- I love to walk abroad and trace
- On Nature's face
- The gladness of thy coming, and all to sing
- With bird, and flower, and bee,
- Sweet praise to thee,
- Spring! beautiful Spring!
- Come, then sweet Spring!
- Come to this desolate, weary world of ours;
- Come with thy breath of balm, thy gift of flowers;
- Thy gentle birds that sing
- In sunny bowers!
- Come with thy gladsome hours,
- O! beautiful Spring!
- And bring, aye, bring anear,
- Sweet childhood of the year.
- Joy, health and freshness on thy dewey wing,
- Spring! beautiful Spring!
History and Legacy of Wild Birds Including Historic Ornithology and Other Topics of Interest
06 November 2013
Invocation to Spring - An 1859 Ohio Poem
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