A Spring-Day Walk

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A Spring-Day Walk
by James Aldrich

From The Poets of America (ed. John Keese, 1841)

1628380A Spring-Day WalkJames Aldrich

Adieu, the city's ceaseless hum,
The haunts of sensual life, adieu!
Green fields, and silent glens! we come,
To spend this bright spring-day with you.

Whether the hills and vales shall gleam
With beauty, is for us to choose;
For leaf and blossom, rock and stream,
Are coloured with the spirit's hues.

Here, to the seeking soul, is brought
A nobler view of human fate,
And higher feeling, higher thought,
And glimpses of a higher state.

Through change of time, on sea and shore,
Serenely nature smiles away;
Yon infinite blue sky bends o'er
Our world, as at the primal day.

The self-renewing earth is moved
With youthful life each circling year;
And flowers that Ceres' daughter loved
At Enna, now are blooming here.

Glad nature will this truth reveal,
That God is ours and we are His;
O friends, my friends! what joy to feel
That He our loving father is!


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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