<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357366" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Duty Done - 1935</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The swallows are back, and I'm tuning my lyre,<br>For today 'tis my duty to sing<br>A melodious lay that is graciously gay<br>To welcome - officially - spring <br>Ting-a-ling <br>So let's have a song with a swing.<br> Bing!<br>High cockalorum and fal-de-rah, whack!<br>Young Spring's in the offing! The swallows are back!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To put sense in the song matters little so long<br>As the lift and the lilt of it ring.<br>And a mention be made of the wattle-hung glade<br> Where the blithering birds are a-wing <br>Ting-a-ling <br> And the clamorous honey-bees cling.<br>Z-z-z-ing!<br>Tho' I'm scarce in the humor, alas and alack!<br>Ho, merry-down-derry! The swallows are back!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So - officially - Hi! Oh, salubrious sky!<br>What a dear and delectable thing<br>To behold such a blue as old Arcady knew<br>When - er - Strephan or someone was king <br>Ting-a-ling <br>And life held nor arrow nor sling.<br> Ping!<br>Ah, the fervor is forced; but I mustn't get slack,<br>Tho' the rhymes may run low, for the swallows are back!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But - privily - oh, my vitality's low,<br>And a sneer at the season I fling <br>For I gasp and I wheeze in the weary unease<br>Of the plagues that the pollen days bring <br>Ting-a-ling <br>I'm insipid as second-hand string.<br> Ring.<br>Ah, ring down the curtain! I've gone to the pack!<br>But, a last word in closing: the swallows are back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357366" data-title="A Duty Done - 1935 de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="The swallows are back, and I'm tuning my lyre, For today 'tis my duty to sing A melodious lay that is graciously gay To welcome - officially - spring Ting-a-ling So let's have a song with a swing. Bing! High cockalorum and fal-de-rah, whack! Yo..."></div> </div> </div>

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