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It is the first mild day of March: Each minute sweeter than before, The red-breast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield, To the bare trees and mountain bare, And grass in the green field.
It is the first mild day of March: Each minute sweeter than before, The red-breast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield, To the bare trees and mountain bare, And grass in the green field.
Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- William Wordsworth
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- Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 83; printed byline: William Wordsworth; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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