Classic Poem

Spring-grass is like youth, it
Must forth, it must out.
'T is warmth in the blood, it
Is courage a-flood, it
Is strength for achievement,
A faith above fact and
A hope above doubt.
Spring-grass is like youth, it
Must forth, it must out.

Spring-grass is like youth, it
Must out, it must forth—
'T will pass every barrier
And break through the earth.
'T is the promise of morrow,
And healing for sorrow;
'T is pain too that rages
Mid men south and north,
And burns out the ages
Of misery, madness
And crime and unworth.
Spring-grass is like youth, it
Must out, it must forth.
Spring-grass is like youth, it
Will rule before long—
'T will rise, it will flame in
Achievement and song.
'T will flourish, upspringing,
Till wreath-like outflinging
Its arms, the whole world it
Embowers,
Wind-swayed and murmuring
With seed and flowers.