The Miracle

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THERE'S not a leaf upon the tree
  To show the sap is leaping,
There's not a blade and not an ear
  Escaped from winter's keeping--
But there's a something in the air
  A something here, a something there,
A restless something everywhere--
  A stirring in the sleeping!

A robin's sudden, thrilling note!
  And see--the sky is bluer!
The world, so ancient yesterday,
  To-day seems strangely newer;
All that was wearisome and stale
  Has wrapped itself in rosy veil--
The wraith of winter, grown so pale
  That smiling spring peeps through her!

© Isabel Ecclestone Mackay