Later Poems

by Bliss Carman

 

The Flute of Spring

 
I KNOW a shining meadow stream
That winds beneath an Eastern hill,
And all year long in sun or gloom
Its murmuring voice never still.

The summer dies more gently there,
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The April flowers are earlier,—
The first warm rain-wind from the Sound
Sets all their eager hearts astir.

And there when lengthening twilights fall
As softly as a wild bird’s wing,
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Across the valley in the dusk
I hear the silver flute of spring.