And in the wood the low wind sighs,

And shadows o’er the brown fields fly!

Low fades the sun, then blazes out,

Glinting on grass, and twig, and tree⁠—

Ah! April, boyish out and out,

Now tears, and now all jollity!


MR. KERR MUDGEON.

OR “YOU WONT, WONT YOU?”

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