SPRING SECRETS.
—o There's a secret in the 'thicket, there's a whisper in the air, And a stir of sleepy grasses, and, altho' the trees are bare. There's a light along their branches,' and a thickening of twigs, And the pussy-willows don their dainty little periwigs. All the meadow-pools are twinkling with their breezes and the sun, While the wrinkles and the crinkles o'er ! their laughing faces run. Hark! a bull-frog singing gaily at the bottom of his voice Is inviting all creation lo awaken and rejoice! 'From the silence of the woodland comes the tinkle of the brook, And a rustle, as of waking, in each sunny sheltered nook; For the west wind has a message, and the gentle rain a hint Of earth-odors and the presage of new melody and tint. There's a secret in the thicket, there's a whisper in the air; There's a mystery a-brewing of which Lilas seems aware, And the busy little lady-sparrow hither flics lo you, While her mate upon the fence observes,. "There's something going on!" 1 —Edna Kingsley Wallace.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 6 July 1907, Page 3
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178SPRING SECRETS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 6 July 1907, Page 3
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