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the east or the west, not from the skies of 

 promise, but from the sand at the edge of 

 a dwindling snow-drift, up from the earth 

 it came. Up to the light of the golden 

 sun in a warm blue sky, raised and gazed 

 a golden star in a warm blue bowl — the 

 Sun-god flower, the Sand-hill bloom. 



It sprang, and it spread like a fire on 

 the plains, and it heaved and it drifted 

 like opal snow — like lilacs all sprinkled 

 with golden dust. 



And this is the Sand-bloom born of 

 the Spring ; this is the Spring-bloom born 

 of the Sand. This is the darling the 

 heralds announced; and Spring is on 

 Chaska-water. 





