THE BLUEBIRD 



GENTLE 



south wind 

 has been 

 blowing at intervals for 

 a week, the snow banks 

 are diminishing in size, 

 and here and there the 

 brown earth seems to be 

 pushing itself up from 

 beneath the drifts. The 

 sun has loosed the ice- 

 fetters, and again the 

 murmur of the brook is 

 heard; while over the 

 water the pussy willows 

 SECTION REMOVED SHOWING IN- are hanging their swollen 



buds, and out in the grove 

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