Home Thoughts, From Abroad

Robert Browning

1812 to 1889

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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—
Now that April's there,
And after April, when May follows,
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The buttercups, the little children's dower
Sees, some morning, unaware,
And whoever wakes in England
And the white-throat builds, and all the swallows!
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The first fine careless rapture!
In England—now!
Oh, to be in England
Hark I where my blossomed pear tree in the hedge