A SPRING BOUQUET.

Rails the rude Wind-king through the surging sea

Of swaying boughs, that bending to the blast

Their countless arms, with murmurous rustling wave,

In wood and forest; and the hedgerows burst

Into the tender greenery of Spring.

Now shew the clumps of golden crocuses

Their crowns above the freshly scented mould;

And quavering bells of snowdrops glimmer white,

In roadside garden; purple violets

Lurk mid their green leaves, heavy-eyed with dew,

Their fragrant perfume scattering on the Dawn.

The polyanthus in her velvet robe—

Yellow and russet—nestles by the side

Of proud auricula; the splendid stars

Of periwinkle—palest lavender—

Gleam from the ivied bank; ranunculus

All-stately queens it o’er her satellites,

The yellow daffodils; Narcissus scents,

With his frankincense sweet, the keen March air,

A flower of peerless beauty.

Wall-flowers shew

From bed and border, their brown-orange blooms;

And under them lingereth a vestal pure,

The last pale primrose. All the pear-trees bend

Beneath their flower-snow; the almonds blush

With roseate bloom; the young year’s minstrel sweet—

The mellow thrush—his liquid carol pours

From the old blackthorn.

Nature is astir;

She wakes rejoicing from her Winter sleep,

And with a thousand voices welcomes Spring!

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