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would you?
WOULD YOU?
COULD you keep the tints of spring
On the woods in misty brightness;
Keep the half-veiled boughs a-swing
To the linnet's flitting lightness;
Through the birch leaves' rippling green
Hold the maple-keys from dropping;
On the sward with May-showers clean,
Cheat the violets into stopping;
On the woods in misty brightness;
Keep the half-veiled boughs a-swing
To the linnet's flitting lightness;
Through the birch leaves' rippling green
Hold the maple-keys from dropping;
On the sward with May-showers clean,
Cheat the violets into stopping;
Could you make the rosebud's lips
Vow to be a bud forever;
From the sedges' wavering tips,
Bid the pendent dewdrop never;
Could you make the sunrise hour
For a lifetime overbrood you;
Could you change the year's full dower
For its first faint promise,—would you?
Vow to be a bud forever;
From the sedges' wavering tips,
Bid the pendent dewdrop never;
Could you make the sunrise hour
For a lifetime overbrood you;
Could you change the year's full dower
For its first faint promise,—would you?
Though joy beads the cup we quaff,
Bubbling from the fount of morning,
Bubbling from the fount of morning,
