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The United States literary gazette (v. 2)
The United States literary gazette - v. 2 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ORIGINAL POETRY. SPRING IN TOWN. The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses. Showers and suns... more »hine bring Slowly the deepening verdure o'er the earth, To put their foliage out the woods are slack, And one by one the singing birds come back. Within the city's bounds the time of flowers Comes earlier. Let a mild and sunny day, Such as full often, for a few bright hours, Breathes through the sky of March the airs of May, Shine on our roofs, and chase the wintry gloom— And, lo, our borders glow with sudden bloom. For the wide sidewalks of Broadway are then Gorgeous as are a rivulet's banks in June, That, overhung with blossoms, through its glen Slides soft away beneath the sunny noon; And they that search the untrodden wood for flowers Meet in its depths no lovelier ones than ours. For here are eyes that shame the violet, Or the dark drop that on the pansy lies; And foreheads white as when, in clusters set, The anemonies by forest fountains rise; And the spring-beauty boasts no tenderer streak Than the soft red on many a youthful cheek. And thick about those lovely temples lie Locks that the lucky Vignardonne has curled— Thrice happy man ! whose trade it is to buy And bake and braid those love-nets of the world-1 Who curls of every glossy color keepest, And sellest, it is said, the blackest cheapest! And well thou mayst; for Italy's brown maids Send the dark locks with which their brows are drest; And Tuscan lasses from their jetty braids Crop half, to buy a ribbon for the rest; But the fresh Norman girls their ringlets spare, And the Dutch damsel keeps her flaxen hair. Then henceforth let no maid or matron grieve To see her locks o...« less