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SPRING, pretty Spring, what treasure do you bring to me? / Green grass and buttercups, cherry-bloom and may? / Sunshine to be glad with me, and little birds to sing to me? / Warm nests to call me along the woodland way?
Spring, happy Spring, what wonder will you do for me? / Light the tulip lanterns, and set the furze a-fire? / Fill your sky with sails of cloud on waves of living blue for me? / Show me green cornfields and budding of the briar?
Spring, darling Spring, my days will not return to me, / You who see them fleeting, you, all time above, / You who move the whole world's heart, ah move one heart to turn to me, / -- Bring me a lover, and teach me how to love!