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If I might see another Spring / I'd not plant summer flowers and wait: / I'd have my crocuses at once, / My leafless pink mezereons, / My chill-veined snowdrops, choicer yet / My white or azure violet, / Leaf-nested primrose; anything / To blow at once not late.
If I might see another Spring / I'd listen to the daylight birds / That build their nests and pair and sing, / Nor wait for mateless nightingale; / I'd listen to the lusty herds, / The ewes with lambs as white as snow, / I'd find out music in the hail / And all the winds that blow.
If I might see another Spring -- / O stinging comment on my past / That all my past results in "if" -- / If I might see another Spring / I'd laugh to-day, to-day is brief; / I would not wait for anything: / I'd use to-day that cannot last, / Be glad to-day and sing.