Mountain Spring and Other Poems

<h2><SPAN name="THEYRE_COMING" id="THEYRE_COMING" />THEY'RE COMING!</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>They're coming! And it seems so long<br/></span> <span>Since sadly autumn laid them low.<br/></span> <span>They left us with the robin's song,<br/></span> <span>They left us to the ice and snow.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>They're coming! So the March wind saith.<br/></span> <span>Though singing songs with icy breath,<br/></span> <span>He's chanting of another May,<br/></span> <span>He's chanting of King Winter's death.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>They're coming! 'Neath the forest's mold,<br/></span> <span>In mossy beds of ferny soil,<br/></span> <span>Slowly their tiny robes unfold,<br/></span> <span>Yet do they neither spin nor toil.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>They're coming! With their influence pure,<br/></span> <span>Their emblematic power again<br/></span> <span>Of him who would our steps allure<br/></span> <span>To realms of love, devoid of pain.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>They're coming! With the summer's breeze,<br/></span> <span>With azure skies and sunny showers,<br/></span> <span>With notes of birds and hum of bees&mdash;<br/></span> <span>Who will not welcome back the flowers?<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />