Song of a Second April
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
Track 1
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And men are merry at their chores,
The grey woodpecker taps and bores;
In orchards near and far away
Go up the hillside in the sun,
Is full of whispers, full of sighs,
Of dazzling mud and dingy snow;
Than April of a year ago,
And shingles lie about the doors;
There rings a hammering all day,
Pensively,—only you are gone,
Among the mullein stalks the sheep
Noisy and swift the small brooks run
And children earnest at their play.
You that alone I cared to keep.
Are here again, and butterflies.
April this year, not otherwise
Hepaticas that pleased you so
The larger streams run still and deep,
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