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He calls in song upon ribbons of scent’d apple blossom and pine-

Which bathe forth thro’ my sill, awaiting

Breast vest'd like sand, and a sky hued cape -

He presents himself with utmost right!

His visit is to bestow a late March gift to me

-A note which shan’t be seen

The gesture of a most humble offering

My messenger is he-

A reminder perch’d low for me to spy

That Spring shall always birth and find us-

If we so choose to believe!

He then stretch’d his ocean arms wide-

And flew back into the mirror'd sky

His gift deliver'd with such profound devotion

The parcel unseen was but a notion of splendor

-Such is the spirit’d kind!

For now as my sights are awaken’d

I shall remember this morn’

And the gift of the mood enchant'd

-To be so divinely blue, as he

 

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