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 Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad,
 Well dost thou thy power display!
  For Winter maketh the light heart said,
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 Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad,
 Well dost thou thy power display!
  For Winter maketh the light heart said,
   And thou,--makest the sad heart gay. 
 Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
 With sudden passion languishing,
  Teaching barren moors to smile,
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 Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
 With sudden passion languishing,
  Teaching barren moors to smile,
   Painting pictures mile on mile,
    Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
     Whence a smokeless incense breathes. 
 A little Madness in the Spring
 Is wholesome even for the King.  
 A little Madness in the Spring
 Is wholesome even for the King. 
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
 As quickly as the ice vanishes when the Father unlooses the frost 
fetters and unwounds the icy ropes of read more 
 As quickly as the ice vanishes when the Father unlooses the frost 
fetters and unwounds the icy ropes of the torrent. 
 Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses,
 A box where sweets compacted lie,
  My musick shows read more 
 Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses,
 A box where sweets compacted lie,
  My musick shows ye have your closes,
   And all must die. 
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring.
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring.
 They know who keep a broken tryst,
 Till something from the Spring be missed
  We have not read more 
 They know who keep a broken tryst,
 Till something from the Spring be missed
  We have not truly known the Spring. 
 Now spring returns; but not to me returns
 The vernal joy my better years have known;
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 Now spring returns; but not to me returns
 The vernal joy my better years have known;
  Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns,
   And all the joys of life with health have flown.