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Frost-locked all the winter, / Seeds, and roots, and stones of fruits, / What shall make their sap ascend / That they may put forth shoots? / Tips of tender green, / Leaf, or blade, or sheath; / Telling of the hidden life / That breaks forth underneath, / Life nursed in its grave by Death.
Blows the thaw-wind pleasantly, / Drips the soaking rain, / By fits looks down the waking sun: / Young grass springs on the plain; / Young leaves clothe early hedgerow trees; / Seeds, and roots, and stones of fruits, / Swollen with sap, put forth their shoots; / Curled-headed ferns sprout in the lane; / Birds sing and pair again.