Ontario Readers Third Book, The

<h2><SPAN name="Spring" id="Spring"></SPAN>A SPRING MORNING</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>There was a roaring in the wind all night;<br/></span> <span>The rain came heavily and fell in floods:<br/></span> <span>But now the sun is rising calm and bright,<br/></span> <span>The birds are singing in the distant woods,<br/></span> <span>Over his own sweet voice the stock-dove broods,<br/></span> <span>The jay makes answer as the magpie chatters,<br/></span> <span>And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>All things that love the sun are out of doors,<br/></span> <span>The sky rejoices in the morning's birth,<br/></span> <span>The grass is bright with rain-drops;&mdash;on the moors<br/></span> <span>The hare is running races in her mirth;<br/></span> <span>And with her feet, she from the plashy earth<br/></span> <span>Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun,<br/></span> <span>Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.<br/></span></div> </div> <p class="citation"><span class="smcap">Wordsworth</span></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p>For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.</p> <p class="citation"><span class="smcap">Solomon's Song.</span> II, 11, 12</p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />