Mountain Spring and Other Poems

<h2><SPAN name="APRIL" id="APRIL" />APRIL</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>When April weeps, she wakes the flowers<br/></span> <span>That slept the winter through.<br/></span> <span>Oh, did they dream those frosty hours<br/></span> <span>That she would be untrue<br/></span> <span>And not awaken them in time<br/></span> <span>To smile their smiles of love,<br/></span> <span>To hear the robin's merry chime,<br/></span> <span>And gentle cooing dove?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>And when they feel their mother's tears<br/></span> <span>So gently o'er them weep,<br/></span> <span>Will they tell her of their simple fears<br/></span> <span>And visions while asleep?<br/></span> <span>And will they tell her that they dreamed,<br/></span> <span>Beneath their sheets of snow,<br/></span> <span>Such weary dreamings that it seemed<br/></span> <span>The winter ne'er would go?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>They'll soon be wide-awake and up,<br/></span> <span>In dainty robes arrayed,<br/></span> <span>Blue violet, gold buttercup,<br/></span> <span>And quaker-lady staid.<br/></span> <span>Wild eglantine and clustering thorn<br/></span> <span>Will grace the byway lanes,<br/></span> <span>Whilst woodland flowers the dells adorn<br/></span> <span>And daisies cheer the plains.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>The rippling streamlet soon will be<br/></span> <span>A crystal mirror bright<br/></span> <span>For waving branch and mint and tree<br/></span> <span>That nod in golden light<br/></span> <span>Of summer sunbeams glad'ning rays<br/></span> <span>Filling the heart with love,<br/></span> <span>While nature and earth, uniting, praise<br/></span> <span>The God who reigns above.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>In lowly spots will lilies spring<br/></span> <span>And scent the summer breeze,<br/></span> <span>And on the earth there'll be no king<br/></span> <span>Arrayed like one of these.<br/></span> <span>So weeping April's tears will bring<br/></span> <span>Her children from the tomb,<br/></span> <span>Will dress the earth in robes of spring,<br/></span> <span>Brightened by fragrant bloom.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />