In Spring, Santa Barbara

Sara Teasdale

I have been happy two weeks together,
 My love is coming home to me,
Gold and silver is the weather
 And smooth as lapis is the sea.

The earth has turned its brown to green
 After three nights of humming rain,
And in the valleys peck and preen
 Linnets with a scarlet stain.

High in the mountains all alone
 The wild swans whistle on the lakes,
But I have been as still as stone,
 My heart sings only when it breaks.

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