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WEST wind and sunshine

Braided together,

What is the one sign

But pleasant weather?

Birds in the cherry-trees,

Bees in the clover;

Who half so gay as these

All the world over?

Violets among the grass,

Roses regretting

How soon the summer ’ll pass, —

Next year forgetting.

Buds sighing in their sleep,

“Summer, pray grant us

Youth, that its bloom will keep

Fragrance to haunt us!”

Rivulets that shine and sing,

Sunbeams abetting, —

No more remembering

Their frozen fretting.

Sweet music in the wind,

Sun in the showers;

All these we’re sure to find

In summer hours.