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/ I. How can I help from laughing while / The daffodilies at me smile; / The tickled dew winks tipsily / In clusters of the lilac-tree; / The crocuses and hyacinths / Storm through the grassy labyrinths / A mirth of gold and violet; / And roses, bud by bud, / Flash from each dainty-lacing net / Red lips of maidenhood?
/ II. How can I help from singing when / The swallow and the hawk again / Are noisy in the hyaline / Of happy heavens clear as wine; / The robin lustily and shrill / Pipes on the timber-bosomed hill; / And o'er the fallow skim the bold, / Mad orioles that glow / Like shining shafts of ingot gold / Shot from the morning's bow?