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 324 MARCH, AT DENMARK HILL.

Out peeps the Crocus from its nook, And looks with timid eye,

To see if on the Snowdrop s brow A blight, like frost, may lie :

But lo ! the expanded Primrose smiles,

And the Ivy bids it hail, And freely in the morning beam

Refresh its colors pale.

It sees the bright Hepatica With the buxom Daisies play

Their merry game of hide and seek, Until the closing day,

It marks against the sheltering wall The Almond s broidered vest,

And the princely Peach and Apricot, In all their glory drest,

The modest Violet puts on

Her robe of varied die, And to the banquet-hall of Spring

Doth enter joyously.

The mighty city hath a world Within its heaving breast,

And there the pulse of busy life Doth never pause nor rest.

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