I bid the leaves burst forth and greet the sun.

I lure the modest bloom

From out the soil-sweet gloom;

I bid the wild-bird leave the drowsy South.

My loves are violets. By my pure kisses won,

They spring from earth, and smile,

All-innocent, the while

I woo them in the aisles of pensive woods.

I am the Wind. From dew-pearl’d heights of wonder

I fall like music on the listening wheat.