April
Arthur Leslie
Salmon
Salmon, Arthur Leslie
Metadata research and editing
DVPP Project Team
Fralick
Kaitlyn
University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Salmon was paid 10s 6d for the poem (NLS Dep 341/371). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
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April, with the pale-blue eye,
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Apri
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April, with the pale-blue eye,
Came and took me by the hand ;
Led me where the bluebells lie
In the hollows of the land ;
Wept a moment with regret,
Laughed a moment for delight ;
And the eyes that glistened wet
Still with sunny gleams were bright.
April—singing, laughing, crying—
Led my unreluctant feet
Where the violets are lying
In the hedgerows, shy and sweet.
If with hers mine eyes were weeping
For the Aprils passed away,
Soon with hers my joy comes leaping
For the April of to-day.
Arthur L. Salmon
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