April, William Cullen Bryant
When April winds
Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush
Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up,
Opened in airs of June her multitude
Of golden chalices to humming-birds
And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.
- William Cullen Bryant, The Fountain, st. 3 (1839).
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Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush
Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up,
Opened in airs of June her multitude
Of golden chalices to humming-birds
And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.
- William Cullen Bryant, The Fountain, st. 3 (1839).
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Cullen_Bryant
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