Spring is Coming - An 1837 Poem
By James Nack.
- Spring is coming, spring is coming,
- Birds are chirping, insects humming;
- Flowers are peeping from their sleeping,
- Streams escaped from winter's keeping,
- In delighted freedom rushing,
- Dance along in music gushing;
- Scenes of late in deadness saddened,
- Smile in animation gladdened;
- All is beauty, all is mirth,
- All is glory upon earth!
- Shout we, then, with nature's voice,
- Welcome spring! rejoice! rejoice!
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- Spring is coming; come, my brother,
- Let us rove with one another,
- To our well remembered wild-wood,
- Flourishing in nature's childhood;
- Where a thousand flowers are springing,
- And a thousand birds are singing;
- Where the golden sunbeams quiver
- On the verdure girdled river;
- Let our youth of feeling out
- To the youth of nature shout,
- While the waves repeat our voice,
- Welcome spring! rejoice! rejoice!
May 13, 1837. Columbia Democrat 1(3): 1.