| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | To ———.
1. “Now tripping forth, the fairy-footed Spring” | | By H. |
| | | NOW tripping forth, the fairy-footed Spring | |
| Awakens bud and bloom, and, liberal, fills | |
| The air with balm, mantling the sunny hills | |
| With living green. The purple martins wing | |
| Their wheeling course, and, twittering sharply, sing | 5 |
| In treble notes a strange and keen delight; | |
| And as they upward soar in airy flight, | |
| Shrill through the sapphire arch their pæans ring. | |
| O sweetheart mine! shall I unfold the theme | |
| Bird, bud, and blossom teach our swelling hearts? | 10 |
| Thy tell-tale blush replies! Nor idle deem | |
| Nor slight the lesson Nature thus imparts, | |
| While even Zephyr from his flight above, | |
| Stooping to kiss thy cheek, sighs tenderly of LOVE! | | | | |
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