April Arrival of the Bluebird

Anonymous. April 23, 1859. The blue bird. Dayton Daily Empire 10(81): 1.

I am so blithe and glad to day!

At morn I heard a blue bird sing;

The blue-bird, warbling soul of spring,

The prophet of the leafy May —

And I knew the violets under the tree

Would listen and look the bird to see,

Peeping timidly here and there

In purple and odor to charm the air;

And the wind flower lifts its rose veined cup

In the leaves of the old year buried up;

And all the delicate buds that bloom

On the moss beds, deep in the forest gloom,

Would stir in their slumber and catch the strain,

And dream of the sun and the April rain —

For spring has come when the blue-bird sings

And folds in the maple his glossy wings,

And the wind may blow and the storm may fall,

But the voice of summer is heard in all.

 

I am so blithe and glad to day!

My heart, beside the blue-bird sings,

And folds, serene, its weary wings,

And knows the hours lead on to May!

First Blue-bird of Spring

Whatever weight the hours have borne

Along the path of frost and snow,

The world is never too forlorn

For birds to sing again; we know

That earliest buds will soon expand,

That spring is somewhere in the land,

For hark! the blue-bird sings.

 

Somewhere the grass is green again,

The meadow mild with shower and sun;

Out bud the trees, up starts the grain,

Through balmy woods the brook doth run,

If anywhere such things may be,

Then why not soon for thee and me?

For hark! the blue-bird sings.

The first blue-bird. April 20, 1876. Colorado Banner 1(30): 7. Published at Boulder, Colorado.