“AH! DID YOU EVER HEAR THE SPRING”

Ah! did you ever hear the Spring

Calling you through the snow,

Or hear the little blackbird sing

Inside its egg — or go

To that green land where grass begins,

Each tiny seed, to grow?

O have you heard what none has heard,

Or seen what none has seen;

O have you been to that strange land

Where no one else has been!