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　　THE FIRST LEAF OF SPRING

　　Written on the First Leaf of a Lady's Album

　　Thou fragile, filmy, gossamery thing,

　　First leaf of spring!

　　At every lightest breath that quakest,

　　And with a zephyr shakest;

　　Scarce stout enough to hold thy slender form together,

　　In calmest halcyon weather;

　　Next sister to the web that spiders weave,

　　Poor flutterers to deceive

　　Into their treacherous silken bed:

　　O! how art thou sustained, how nourishèd!

　　All trivial as thou art,

　　Without dispute,

　　Thou play'st a mighty part;

　　And art the herald to a throng

　　Of buds, blooms, fruit,

　　That shall thy cracking branches sway,

　　While birds on every spray

　　Shall pay the copious fruitage with a sylvan song.

　　So 'tis with thee, whoe'er on thee shall look,

　　First leaf of this beginning modest book.

　　Slender thou art, God knowest,

　　And little grace bestowest,

　　But in thy train shall follow after,

　　Wit, wisdom, seriousness, in hand with laughter;

　　Provoking jests, restraining soberness,

　　In their appropriate dress;

　　And I shall joy to be outdone

　　By those who brighter trophies won;

　　Without a grief,

　　That I thy slender promise have begun,

　　First leaf.

　　1832. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4