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Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889

Spring in Winter

By Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838–1916)

FOR me there is no rarer thing

Than, while the winter’s lingering,

To taste the blessedness of spring.

Were this the spring, I now should sigh

That aught were spent;—but rich am I!

Untouched spring’s golden sum doth lie.