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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Margaret ElizabethSangster

715 Awakening

NEVER yet was a springtime,

Late though lingered the snow,

That the sap stirred not at the whisper

Of the south wind, sweet and low;

Never yet was a springtime

When the buds forgot to blow.

Ever the wings of the summer

Are folded under the mould;

Life, that has known no dying,

Is Love’s, to have and to hold,

Till, sudden, the burgeoning Easter!

The song! the green and the gold!