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There is a music of immaculate love, / That breathes within the virginal veins of Spring: -- / And trillium blossoms, like the stars that cling / To fairies' wands; and, strung on sprays above, / White-hearts and mandrake blooms, that look enough / Like the elves' washing, white with laundering / Of May-moon dews; and all pale-opening / Wild-flowers of the woods, are born thereof. / There is no sod Spring's white foot brushes but / Must feel the music that vibrates within, / And thrill to the communicated touch / Responsive harmonies, that must unshut / The heart of beauty for song's concrete kin, / Emotions -- that be flowers -- born of such.