Spring Song of the Swallow

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h4 id="id00097" style="margin-top: 2em">SPRING SONG OF THE SWALLOW.</h4> <p id="id00098">         Oh, the days are growing longer;<br/> So rang the jubilant song of the swallow;<br/> I come a-bringing beauty into the land,<br/> The sky of the West grows warm and yellow,<br/> Oh, gladness comes with my light-winged band,<br/> And the days are growing longer.<br/></p> <p id="id00099">         Oh, the days are growing longer,<br/> The wavy gleam of fluttering wings,<br/> Touching the silent earth so lightly,<br/> Will wake all the sleeping, beautiful things,<br/> The world will glow so brightly—brightly;<br/> And the days are growing longer.<br/></p> <p id="id00100">         Oh, the days are growing longer,<br/> All the rivulets dumb will laugh, and run<br/> Over the meadows with dancing feet;<br/> Following the silvery plough of the sun,<br/> Will be furrows filled with wild flowers sweet:<br/> And the days are growing longer.<br/></p> <p id="id00101">         Oh, the days are growing longer;<br/> Over whispering streams will rushes lean,<br/> To answer the waves' soft murmurous call;<br/> The lily will bend from its watch-tower green,<br/> To list to the lark's low madrigal,<br/> And the days are growing longer.<br/></p> <p id="id00102">         Oh, the days are growing longer;<br/> When they lengthen to ripe and perfect prime,<br/> Then, oh, then, I will build my happy nest;<br/> And all in that pleasant and balmy time,<br/> There never will be a bird so blest;<br/> And the days are growing longer.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />