Littell's Living Age/Volume 173/Issue 2243/"Would thy warm heart human, too!"

by F. W. B.

Would thy warm heart were human, too,
     O spirit of the Spring!
So should thy softest breezes woo
     The souls most suffering.

So shouldst thou bid some frolic air
     No longer play so light,
But to foul courts and alleys fare,
     Full-charged with Spring's delight;

To whisper what a glory fills
     The woodslope to the stream,
Where in the dusk the daffodils
     Like flakes of sunlight gleam!

Some air that in the sick man's breast
     Like a new life should lie;
Or fan the fevered brow to rest,
     And with the dying die!