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Next Year's Spring.

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The bed of flowers     Loosens amain,     The beauteous snowdrops     Droop o'er the plain.     The crocus opens     Its glowing bud,     Like emeralds others,     Others, like blood.     With saucy gesture     Primroses flare,     And roguish violets,     Hidden with care;     And whatsoever     There stirs and strives,     The Spring's contented,     If works and thrives.     'Mongst all the blossoms     That fairest are,     My sweetheart's sweetness     Is sweetest far;     Upon me ever     Her glances light,     My song they waken,     My words make bright,     An ever open     And blooming mind,     In sport, unsullied,     In earnest, kind.     Though roses and lilies     By Summer are brought,     Against my sweetheart     Prevails he nought.

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