Excerpt from First Love: A Lyric Sequence

The linnet is tuning her flute, Oh, what has caused the sparrow's mirth?, A new religion stirs me now, The bush is in bloom and the tree is in flower, All the fields are glad again, There's something missing in the world, The broken bow is healed, I lay full length upon a fragrant lawn, Lights, Oh woodlands, hang your banners out, It was but yesterday I went, I have discovered where she lives, There is no death to conquer Spring, Green is the blooming thicket, Swallow, tardy swallow, Oh, she is proud as the virtuous goddess, "The river turns to the peaceful breast", When she would go from me - can I reprove her?, Under the stars - the wistful, mild May stars, Away with doleful maundering, away with fretful days

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