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The Blossoms on the Trees

By James Whitcomb Riley

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Blossoms crimson, white, or blue,     Purple, pink, and every hue,     From sunny skies, to tintings drowned     In dusky drops of dew,     I praise you all, wherever found,     And love you through and through;     But, Blossoms On The Trees,     With your breath upon the breeze     There's nothing all the world around     As half as sweet as you!     Could the rhymer only wring     All the sweetness to the lees     Of all the kisses clustering     In juicy Used-to-bes,     To dip his rhymes therein and sing     The blossoms on the trees,     "O Blossoms on the Trees,"     He would twitter, trill, and coo,     "However sweet, such songs as these     Are not as sweet as you:     For you are blooming melodies     The eyes may listen to!"

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About James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) was an American poet known as the "Hoosier Poet." His dialect poems—including "Little Orphant Annie" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin"—celebrate rural Indiana life and childhood nostalgia.

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