So shall our heroes peaceful sleep
While love and honor, flowers and stars,
Through centuries their vigils keep,
Till love and honor banish wars.
SPRING.
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UNDER the opened gates of paradise
Now swings the world, and thro' the soundless seas
The wind-swept heaven drops upon the trees
The perfumes of celestial sacrifice;
O leaves and flowers__sweetest mysteries__
Thrilling our souls with voiceless madrigals,
Are ye not ciphers writ on Nature's walls,
The organ notes of future symphonies ?
Prophet blossoms! Earth's winter has been long,
Eons of years, O emerald, preaching leaves,
Snow-banks of human hearts, glaciers of wrong!
But lo! it comes, the sun that all retrieves,
The ages' glass, the miracle of spring
Doth shadow Time's majestic blossoming.
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