Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="SPRING_O_THE_YEAR" id="SPRING_O_THE_YEAR"></SPAN>Spring o’ the Year</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig">“<i>Spring o’ the year! Spring o’ the year!</i>”<br/></span> <span class="i2">Was there ever a song so gay,<br/></span> <span class="i0">As the song the meadow-lark sings to me<br/></span> <span class="i2">When we meet in the fields each day?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="ig">“<i>Spring o’ the year! Spring o’ the year!</i>”<br/></span> <span class="i2">Then pauses a moment to look<br/></span> <span class="i0">At soft green leaves on shrub and tree,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And buttercups gay in the brook.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="ig">“<i>Spring o’ the year! Spring o’ the year!</i>”<br/></span> <span class="i2">No more weather gloomy and sad,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Spring o’ the year! Spring o’ the year!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Aren’t you glad? Aren’t you glad?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="ig">“<i>Spring o’ the year! Spring o’ the year!</i>”<br/></span> <span class="i2">Isn’t it blue&mdash;the sky above?<br/></span> <span class="i0">Watch ’em, watch ’em, these mates of mine,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Building their nests, and making love.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="ig">“<i>Spring o’ the year! Spring o’ the year!</i>”<br/></span> <span class="i2">Ho! I sing it morning and night,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Never were meadows quite so green,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Never were posies quite so bright.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="ig">“<i>Spring o’ the year! Spring o’ the year!</i>”<br/></span> <span class="i2">Out rings his song so sweet and shrill,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Its gladness catches you unawares,<br/></span> <span class="i2">With its gurgle, and laugh, and thrill.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_119" id="page_119"></SPAN>{119}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />