Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Spring Song
By George William Curtis (18241892)A
In the top of the highest tree:
He said “I pour out my heart in song
For the summer that soon shall be!”
Another bird sang “I pour
My heart on the solemn solitude,
For the springs that return no more.”