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Spring Walkers

ISN’T there just a hint in the air

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That spring’s hiding out in the garden somewhere?

Remember the place where the violets grew?

Let’s all go and see if they’ve been stirring too.

That sounded like wings, O! look it’s a bird.

How did he know that the mosses had stirred.

Before we can really think it is spring

He’s here on his faith, and started to sing.

Someone’s been here, the leaves have been tossed

As if one were looking for things that were lost.

And ruthlessly left to the late April snow

The pale slender necks of the first buds below.

Let’s cover them up, it doesn’t seem fair

To leave them like this, see that birch over there?

We’ll remember the place and come back again,

When the sun is some warmer, and there’s been a rain.

Let’s walk thru the wood, and come back this way

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