April (Teasdale)

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April
by Sara Teasdale
From Rivers to the Sea Part I


THE roofs are shining from the rain,
      The sparrows twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
      The little clouds go by.

Yet the back-yards are bare and brown
      With only one unchanging tree--
I could not be so sure of Spring
      Save that it sings in me.


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