RENEWAL
by Dora Read Goodale
(first published 1887)
There's magic in the air today,
There's promise in the sun;
The very brooks begin to play,
And frolic as they run.
The hive is all astir with bees,
The slender willows shine;
The sap is mounting in the trees,
And swelling in the vine.
The swallow comes from far away
To seek her summer nest,
Whose narrow hanging walls of clay
Await the welcome guest.
At ease upon the cottage floor,
His head between his feet,
The shaggy setter guards the door,
Or dozes in the heat;
And there beneath the fitful ray
Of many a yellow beam,
His aged master, bent and gray,
Is laughing through his dream.
O, pleasure pricks in every vein,
And grief is turned to joy,
For Earth herself is young again,
And Time is but a boy!
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