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April adance in play

met with his lover May

where she came garlanded.

The blossoming boughs o’erhead

were thrill’d to bursting by

the dazzle from the sky

and the wild music there

that shook the odorous air.

Each moment some new birth

hasten’d to deck the earth

in the gay sunbeams.

Between their kisses dreams:

And dream and kiss were rife

with laughter of mortal life.

But this late day of golden fall

is still as a picture upon a wall

or a poem in a book lying open unread.

Or whatever else is shrined

when the Virgin hath vanishèd:

Footsteps of eternal Mind

on the path of the dead.