A voice came up thro’ the April-land
And spake a word of the sea;
Straight leaped the sap in the alder’s veins,
Star-flowers blew in the lea;
The lark’s throat ached with his passion-song—
My heart with the love of thee.
A voice came up thro’ the April-land
And spake a word of the sea;
The humming-bird yearned for the eglantine,
For the clover yearned the bee;
The wind for the wet lips of the rain—
My heart for the heart of thee.
“The Voice of April-Land” as it appears in Higginson’s The Voice of April-Land (1903).