Days too Short

Days too Short written by William Henry Davies

From "Songs of Joy", 1911

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When primroses are out in Spring,
  And small, blue violets come between;
  When merry birds sing on boughs green,
And rills, as soon as born, must sing;

When butterflies will make side-leaps,
  As though escaped from Nature's hand
  Ere perfect quite; and bees will stand
Upon their heads in fragrant deeps;

When small clouds are so silvery white
  Each seems a broken rimmed moon—
  When such things are, this world too soon,
For me, doth wear the veil of Night.

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