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O ! O Spring! O Southern Spring! What a triumphal song you sing! All the valley sings! Nor only warblers who have wings; All the peach and almond blossom Seems young carol from their bosom In the form of flowers, Wandering every way On many a spray, Rills in the blue day, Very bird-notes in a spray, Filling all the valley. And I deem that, as they dally In the summer light intense, In the deep Italian blue, A subtle spirit influence May re-enchant them to a dew Of melody pure-hearted, Hither and thither parted, From the bosom of the birds,