Spring Unfolds

Spring Unfolds

 

Soon will the lovely spring unfold

Her blossoms to the breeze;

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And give with fruits of green and gold

Temptation to the trees.

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Young April with her silver showers,

And tender tears of dew;

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And beauteous May tho’ blooming bowers,

Their charms again shall shew.

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Delightful Spring are long shall spread

The vale with varying green,

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The strawberry and the cherry red,

In every grove be seen.

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The garden gay and fertile field

Shall gild the earth again;

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This brings its flowers, and that shall yield

The golden glittering grain.

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I love to see the blooming bud

A rich red rose undo;

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The apple blushing as with blood,

The plum with veins of blue.

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To see the long prolific vine

It’s precious product mould;

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And in the Summer’s sunbeam shine

Large grapes of glossy gold.

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The poetry above is an excerpt from The Seasons by Dr. John Lofland, published in The Poetical and Prose Writings of Dr. John Lofland, The Milford Bard (1855).

Lofland, by the way, was a great friend of Edgar Allan Poe.

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*The flower photos were taken yesterday in our backyard.

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