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The New Spring

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The long grief left her old--and then     Came love and made her young again     As though some newer, gentler Spring     Should start dead roses blossoming;     Old roses that have lain full long     In some forgotten book of song,     Brought from their darkness to be one     With lilting winds and rain and sun;     And as they too might bring away     From that dim volume where they lay     Some lyric hint, some song's perfume     To add its beauty to their bloom,     So love awakes her heart that lies     Shrouded in fragrant memories,     And bids it bloom again and wake     Sweeter for that old sorrow's sake.

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"The long grief left her old--and then..."

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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