'Tis May Now in New England / Bliss Carman

'Tis May Now in New England

'Tis May now in New England
And through the open door
I see the creamy breakers,
I hear the hollow roar.

Back to the golden marshes
Comes summer at full tide,
But not the golden comrade
Who was the summer's pride.

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Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
from Later Poems, 1926

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada, the United States, and the European Union]

Bob Galindo, Malone spring marshes, May 2013. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 

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