Poems (Follen)/The Child's welcome to Spring

by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

THE CHILD'S WELCOME TO SPRING.

Dear mother, guess what I have heard!
 On it will soon be Spring;
I 'm sure it was a little bird:
 Mother, I heard him sing.

Look at this little piece of green
 That peeps out from the snow,
As if it wanted to be seen:
 'T will soon be Spring, I know.

And O, come here, come here, and look;
 How fast it runs along!
Here is a cunning little brook:
 O, hear its pretty song.

I know 't is glad the Winter 's gone,
 That kept it all so still;
For now it merrily runs on,
 And goes just where it will.

I feel just like the brook, I know:
 It says, it seems to me,—
"Good bye, cold weather, ice and snow:
 Now girls and brooks are free."

I love to think of what you said,
 Mother, to me last night,
Of this great world that God has made,
 So beautiful and bright.

And now it is the happy Spring,
 No naughty thing I 'll do:
I would not be the only thing
 That is not happy too.