Show A SPRING WIND O siHersweet wind blow free and blow merry Blow hedgerows in bud blow the maples in bloom Awake the pale snowdrops the croucuses rnprv And sow the gold tassles the green stems of broom I His crystal mail shattered the winter lies dead All his cloud banners tattered his ice arrows sped In reverence waft him across the wide ferry Where the days and the years come to fulness of doom O silversweet south wind the wholo world is merry I I Th1I rose is In bud and the May Is in bloom I See the turf spangled white with a1 promise of berry And list the bees hum In the lilacs light plume As a queen for her bridal the earth Is arrayed With dewdiamonds gleaming on leaf and on blade The birds chant in harmonies subtle and airy And night Is but just rest that the white stars Illume O silversweet south wind High summer is i merry With gold of the harvest and roses in bloom And orchard trees reddened with many a cherry And mockingbird sons through the nights tender gloom O south wind of summer 0 south wind of spring < Thanks Bension thrice for the good gifts you bringf The rich largesse won in the far Isle of faery i O wind of fair conquest each heart gives you room T 3 > Martha McCullochWilliams In the Baltimore Bal-timore News u |