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1849–1903

VI

William Ernest Henley

In the red April dawn, In the wild April weather, From brake and thicket and lawn The birds sing all together.

The look of the hoyden Spring Is pinched and shrewish and cold; But all together they sing Of a world that can never be old:

Of a world still young — still young!— Whose last word wo n't be said, Nor her last song dreamed and sung, Till her last true lover's dead!

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