"The Voice of April-Land"


The Voice of April-Land

A voice came up thro’ the April-land 
And spake a word of the sea; 
Straight leaped the sap in the alder’s veins, 
Star-flowers blew in the lea; 
The lark’s throat ached with his passion-song— 
My heart with the love of thee. 

A voice came up thro’ the April-land 
And spake a word of the sea; 
The humming-bird yearned for the eglantine, 
For the clover yearned the bee; 
The wind for the wet lips of the rain— 
My heart for the heart of thee. 

"The Voice of April-Land" as it appears in Ella Higginson's The Voice of April-Land (1903).

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