AN APRIL GREETING ON HIS RETURN FROM THE SOUTH
BY EDWIN MARKHAM
AGAIN the mood of Eden on the earth!
Again the summons and the mystic mirth,
The beauty and the wonder and the dare,
Thrilling the heart, the field, the delicate air!
So now once more the old remembering:
The lyric hosts come out of the South with song,
With music that can save the soul from wrong—
The immemorial multitudes a-wing