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SONG OF SPRING

By Richard Realf

My heart goes forth to meet the Spring

With the step of a bounding roe,

For it seems like the touch of a seraph’s wing

When the pleasant south winds blow.

O, I love the loveliness that lies

In the smiling heart of May,

The beauty throbbing in violet eyes,