《Late Spring》歌词

[00:00:00] Late Spring - Richard Mitchley

[00:00:00] Late Spring by Henry Van Dyke

[00:00:04] Ah who will tell me in these leaden days

[00:00:07] Why the sweet Spring delays

[00:00:09] Where she hides the dear desire

[00:00:12] Of every heart that longs

[00:00:13] For bloom and fragrance and the ruby fire

[00:00:16] Of maple-buds along the misty hills

[00:00:18] And that immortal call which fills

[00:00:20] The waiting wood with songs

[00:00:23] The snow-drops came so long ago

[00:00:25] It seemed that Spring was near

[00:00:27] But then returned the snow

[00:00:29] With biting winds and all the earth grew sere

[00:00:33] And sullen clouds drooped low

[00:00:35] To veil the sadness of a hope deferred:

[00:00:38] Then rain rain rain incessant rain

[00:00:42] Beat on the window-pane

[00:00:45] Through which I watched the solitary bird

[00:00:47] That braved the tempest buffeted and tossed

[00:00:50] With rumpled feathers down the wind again

[00:00:53] Oh were the seeds all lost

[00:00:55] When winter laid the wild flowers in their tomb

[00:00:58] I searched their haunts in vain

[00:01:00] For blue hepaticas and trilliums white

[00:01:03] And trailing arbutus the Spring's delight

[00:01:05] Starring the withered leaves with rosy bloom

[00:01:09] The woods were bare: and every night the frost

[00:01:12] To all my longings spoke a silent nay

[00:01:15] And told me Spring was far and far away

[00:01:19] Even the robins were too cold to sing

[00:01:22] Except a broken and discouraged note

[00:01:24] Only the tuneful sparrow on whose throat

[00:01:27] Music has put her triple finger-print

[00:01:29] Lifted his head and sang my heart a hint

[00:01:32] Wait wait wait oh wait a while for Spring

[00:01:37] But now Carina what divine amends

[00:01:40] For all delay What sweetness treasured up

[00:01:43] What wine of joy that blends

[00:01:45] A hundred flavours in a single cup

[00:01:47] Is poured into this perfect day

[00:01:50] For look sweet heart here are the early flowers

[00:01:53] That lingered on their way

[00:01:54] Thronging in haste to kiss the feet of May

[00:01:57] And mingled with the bloom of later hours

[00:01:59] Anemonies and cinque-foils violets blue

[00:02:02] And white and iris richly gleaming through

[00:02:05] The grasses of the meadow and a blaze

[00:02:06] Of butter-cups and daisies in the field

[00:02:09] Filling the air with praise

[00:02:11] As if a silver chime of bells had pealed

[00:02:14] The frozen songs within the breast

[00:02:16] Of silent birds that hid in leafless woods

[00:02:18] Melt into rippling floods

[00:02:20] Of gladness unrepressed

[00:02:23] Now oriole and blue-bird thrush and lark

[00:02:26] Warbler and wren and vireo

[00:02:28] Confuse their music; for the living spark

[00:02:31] Of Love has touched the fuel of desire

[00:02:33] And every heart leaps up in singing fire

[00:02:37] It seems as if the land

[00:02:38] Were breathing deep beneath the sun's caress

[00:02:41] Trembling with tenderness

[00:02:42] While all the woods expand

[00:02:44] In shimmering clouds of rose and gold and green

[00:02:48] To veil the joys too sacred to be seen

[00:02:52] Come put your hand in mine

[00:02:54] True love long sought and found at last

[00:02:57] And lead me deep into the Spring divine

[00:03:00] That makes amends for all the wintry past

[00:03:03] For all the flowers and songs I feared to miss

[00:03:06] Arrive with you;

[00:03:08] And in the lingering pressure of your kiss

[00:03:10] My dreams come true;

[00:03:12] And in the promise of your generous eyes

[00:03:15] I read the mystic sign

[00:03:16] Of joy more perfect made

[00:03:18] Because so long delayed

[00:03:20] And bliss enhanced by rapture of surprise

[00:03:23] Ah think not early love alone is strong;

[00:03:27] He loveth best whose heart has learned to wait:

[00:03:30] Dear messenger of Spring that tarried long

[00:03:33] You're doubly dear because you come so late