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April had covered the hills / With flickering yellows and reds, / The sparkle and coolness of snow / Was blown from the mountain beds.
Across a deep-sunken stream / The pink of blossoming trees, / And from windless appleblooms / The humming of many bees.
The air was of rose and gold / Arabesqued with the song of birds / Who, swinging unseen under leaves, / Made music more eager than words.
Of a sudden, aslant the road, / A brightness to dazzle and stun, / A glint of the bluest blue, / A flash from a sapphire sun.
Blue-birds so blue, 't was a dream, / An impossible, unconceived hue, / The high sky of summer dropped down / Some rapturous ocean to woo.
Such a colour, such infinite light! / The heart of a fabulous gem, / Many-faceted, brilliant and rare.
Centre Stone of the earth's diadem!
Centre Stone of the Crown of the World, / "Sincerity" graved on your youth! / And your eyes hold the blue-bird flash, / The sapphire shaft, which is truth.