Kindly Spring Again Is Here

Kindly spring again is here

Trees and fields in bloom ap­pear;

Hark! the birds with art­less lays

Warble their cre­at­or’s praise.

Where in win­ter all was snow

Now the flow­ers in clus­ters grow;

And the corn

in green ar­ray

Promises a har­vest-day.

Lord

af­ford a spring to me

Let me feel like what I see;

Speak

and by Thy gra­cious voice

Make my droop­ing soul re­joice.

On Thy gar­den deign to smile

Raise the plants

en­rich the soil;

Soon Thy pre­sence will re­store

Life to what seemed dead be­fore.