New-York tribune., 1867-05-02
The great ANIMAL miracle of the renewal Of verni
kfe is thus described

Willows and liass brings again,
The whistle of returning birds,
And trumpetlowing OF the herds
What ls sISGls potent TbI bi6od hath modest May:
The wealth Of forms, the flush OF hues
Flows from the heart Of Love the Lord.
Hither rolls the storm of heat;
feel It's finer biOws beat
Heat with viewless fingers molds
swels and nellOws, andmatures,
Bird and brier inly warns.
iHss si sPFie3es 95 ResS SRS Sad 5pRsiIS6 lT ISTa,6
Adds TO oak and oxen strength,
BOls the world In tepid lakes,
Burns the world, yet burnt remakesj
EnvelOping heat enchanted robe,
- Wraps the daisy and the globe
Transforming what IL doth infOld,
Life OF death, out OF old,
WW Painting fawns and eopards' ieRs
seethes the guifencrnsoning shells,
Fires gardens with joyful blaze
The dead log touched bursts Tito leaf.
The wheat-bade whispers of the sheat
What god is this impeI1al, Heat, o.,
Doth it bear hidden in its heaBt
Waterline patterns Of all art
All figures, organs. hues, and gracesf
And drops from Powers redundant horn
All seeds Of beauty TO be DOInf
We then have few melOdious words On the
msnner in which we should celebrate the gracious
festival.
And duly greet the entering Mayf
Too strait and low our cottage doors,
Nor spacious use court s nor mGnarchs hall,
Up and away! where naughty woods
Front the liberated floods:
We will climb the brOadbacked hills,
We viii mark the leaps and CLEANS
OF the new-delvered streams,
- And the mnrmurtng rivers OF sap
Mount in the pipes OF the trees,
Giddy with day, to the topmOst spire,
Which for a spike OF tender green
snd saGftIsd tie cooEs ~ RGSas5y Of oy n Gs e bird
And the love in its carol heard,
Frog and lizard in holiday coats,
We win heart hear the tiny roar
While cheerful cries Of crag and plain
Reply to the thunder OF river and main.
The high religious, influence of the return Of
Spring on hearts prepared for its tender ministries
is set forth in the closing lines of the poem:
Soft on the south-wind sleeps the haze:
1is kSd the Sssf sSt eSGreS %1TeSs days. ,S man
@ soothssyer r1 Of the heed eldest gods
Repaifer Of what harms betde,
Revealer Of the inmOst powers
Prolnstheus pdolereG, 1I.a do Joys % denied; .
Or in what far tomorrow due;
Speaking By the TO Tongues ys,.s:, Of i,, nsTsrs'
Singing by the oriole songs,
Heart oflird S the II mans ans heart seeking;
Under MoTn's Unified lid,
Islands s S iGS%i2s So1SS. iss, S,SS.P Ssy9PS
or taunt US with our hOPe deeaSeda
or who like thee persuade,
The morn and sparkling dew, a snsrsf
Thy genus, wies, and ssandishuasatS
There Is no orator prevails
To beckOn or persuade -
Like thee the youth OF maid:
Thy birds, thy sOngsytAy brooks, thy gales,
Thy blOOpss, thy kinds,
Thy echoes in the wilderness,
eoothe pain, and age, and loves distress,
hlre falntng will, and baild heroic HAlnd&
For thoQ, Spring. eanst renevate
AL that high God did first create.
BE still HE arm and architect.
Rebuild the ruin, hiend defect.
Chemist 20 yamp old worlds with new.
Coat sea and sky with heayeniier bae
New-tint the pluIrage of the bGrds
And slough detay from grazing herds.
Sweep rulns 4TOin the searped mOQntaiO,
Cleanse thf torrent at the fouRtain
Purge alI by towns lSflea
Bring a. farsmother faireF child,
Not less renew the heart and brain.
scatter the slOth, wash out the stain
Make the aged eye sun clear
To parting soul bring grandeur
Under gentle types, my Spring
Masks the might of Natures king.
An energy that searches th0TOagh
From Chaos TO the dawnDg mOTr0w
Into all cur human plight,
The souls pilgrimage aud fhRlS;
In city or In solitude,
etsp By stcp, hits bad togood,