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From the United States Liteyary Gazette.


SPRING
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SPRING.
,nain the infant floweIs of Splng
call thee TO sport on thy rainbow wing
spirit of Beauty! the air sbright
with the boundlcss flow of thy endless light;
The woods are ready to bud and bloom,
And are weaving for Summer their quiet gloom;
The tufted brook reflects as its flows,
The tips of the half-unopcned rose,
And the carly bird as he carols free,
Sings to his little love and thee.
See how the clouds, as they Aectly pass,
Throw their shadowy veil on the darkening grass
And the pattcring showers and stealing dews,
with their starry gems and skyeV hucs,
From the oozy meadow that drinks the tide,
To the sheltered vale on the mountain side,
Wake to new and freshcr birth
The tendcrcst tribes of teemng earth,
And scatter with light and dallying play
Their earliest flowers oil the Zephyr's way
lie comes from the mountains piny steep,
Tor the long boughs bend with silent sweep,
And his rapid steps have hurried o'cr
che grassy hills to the pebbly shore;
And now, on the breast of the lonely lake,
The waves in silvery glances break,
ike a short and quickly rolling sea,
When tn, gale first feels its liberty,
And the flakes Of foam, like courscrs, run,
Rejoicing beneath the vertical sun.
lie has cross'd the lake, and the forest heaves.
TO the sway Of his wings, its billowy leaves.
And the downy tufts of the meadow fly
in snowy clouds, as he passes by,
And softly beneath its noisy tread
The odoious spring grass bcndsits head;
And now he reaches the woven bower,
Where he meets his own bciov'd flower.
And gladly his wearied limbs reposc
In the shade Of the newly-openng rose.


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