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Scarce tangible may be the first glad sign, Yet how it shakes us with a vernal thrill! The voice of the south wind behind the hill; Or an elusive bird-note faint and fine; A flush at dawn along the wan sky-line; A lyrical exuberance in the rill; A something working its mysterious will Both in majestic hole and tenuous vine! It is the vernal spirit. In the earth It throbs and pulses; quickens in the air; And permeates all nature thro' and thro'. In the expectant poignancy of birth What raptures, what rare ecstasies we share— Old,—ah, how old!—and yet forever new!
Scarce tangible may be the first glad sign, Yet how it shakes us with a vernal thrill! The voice of the south wind behind the hill; Or an elusive bird-note faint and fine; A flush at dawn along the wan sky-line; A lyrical exuberance in the rill; A something working its mysterious will Both in majestic hole and tenuous vine! It is the vernal spirit. In the earth It throbs and pulses; quickens in the air; And permeates all nature thro' and thro'. In the expectant poignancy of birth What raptures, what rare ecstasies we share— Old,—ah, how old!—and yet forever new!
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Clinton Scollard
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 92; printed byline: Clinton Scollard; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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