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Spring went about the woods to-day, / The soft-foot winter-thief, / And found where idle sorrow lay / 'Twixt flower and faded leaf.
She looked on him, and found him fair / For all she had been told; / She knelt adown beside him there, / And sang of days of old.
His open eyes beheld her nought, / Yet 'gan his lips to move; / But life and deeds were in her thought, / And he would sing of love.
So sang they till their eyes did meet, / And faded fear and shame; / More bold he grew, and she more sweet, / Until they sang the same.
Until, say they who know the thing, / Their very lips did kiss, / And Sorrow laid abed with Spring / Begat an earthly bliss.