SPRING by Edwin Carlile Litsey

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 31, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 22.

SPRING.

By Edwin Carlile Litsey

[Edwin Carlile Litsey, in The Pilgrim.] FULL-DRAPED in palest green, a sweet wraith glides Among the trees long held in winter's grasp; Her fairy fingers break each icy clasp In doleful hollows and on dank hillsides. Her girdle is a filmy band of light, Her flowing hair is bound with tender leaves, And with a sap-charged wand she deftly weaves A charm above the breast of Nature white. Her face exultant, and her radiant form Pulses with new-born vigor from the sod. And lo! the paths her magic feet have trod Break into life,—life glorious and warm! And down, and up, with regal mien she goes, The brooklet quivers, slumbering seeds awake; The thousand hearts of Nature stir and quake, And verdure smiles where lately lay the snows!