"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).