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But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: . . . . And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain; And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.