TO SPRING.
Green plains already smile with flow'rets bright While palpitating waves embrace fche shore ; "Unto their nests swift swallows wing their flight, And from the trees the birds sweet carols pour.
Like some young mother, E«fch, all gaily dighfc, . Smiles at ncr teeming bosom's promised store, While Love and Life breathe in each zephyr hght, And ev'ry heart witb joy now flowetb o'er.
O Spring, my country thou shalt view anew, And -with thy garlandß bright her brow .. shalt grace, Flow'ra ein her breast and at her feet shalt strew! Away with flow'rs ! If on her servile brow A laurel-wreath the Future cannot place, Her crown of thorns beseems it better now ! CD. S. I
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2178, 27 June 1890, Page 6
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116TO SPRING. Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2178, 27 June 1890, Page 6
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