"WHEN SPRING HAS COME" 



WHEN Spring has come, and in your frost-bound 



heart 



Is born with her first sighing o'er the hills 

 The longing that so strangely softens it, 

 The blind, warm reaching out toward all that lives 

 And breathes the tepid air along with you, 

 The dreamy joy in life and youth and things 

 That swells your achmg breast and finds no words, 

 Thrice happy, oh, thrice happy still the Earth 

 That can express herself in roses, yes, 

 Can make the lily tell her inmost thought ! 



GERTRUDE HALL. 



EACH FLOWER IN ITS SEASON 



(From " Of Oar dens ") 



FOR March, there come violets, especially the single 

 blue, which are the earliest, the yellow daffodil, the 

 daisy, the almond-tree in blossom, the peach-tree in 

 blossom, the cornelian-tree in blossom, sweetbriar. 

 In April follow the double white violet, the wall- 

 flower, the stock gilliflower, the cowslip, flower-de- 

 luces, and lilies of all natures, rosemary flowers, the 

 tulip, the double peony, the pale daffodil, the 



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