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Song of Spring

When the smiling skies of spring

Author: Alice Jean Cleator
Tune: [When the smiling skies of spring]
Published in 1 hymnal

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 When the smiling skies of spring
Send their sunshine down,
Then we scatter tiny seeds
In the furrows brown.

Refrain:
Welcome, happy days of spring,
In a merry throng!
All things o’er the joyous land,
Wake to life and song.

2 When the golden April light
Flushes in the skies,
Spring calls softly o’er the land,
“Little plants arise.” [Refrain]

3 Hear the footsteps of the rain
Pater o’er the land,
Soon the little plants arise
In a merry band. [Refrain]

4 Taller, taller still they grow;
Harvest days begin;
Soon the fruits from plant and bough
All are gathered in. [Refrain]

Source: Uplifted Voices: a 20th century hymn book for sunday-schools and devotional meetings #163

Author: Alice Jean Cleator

Alice Jean Cleator, 1871-1926 Born: Cir­ca 1871, An­dre­as, Isle of Man, Eng­land. Died: Cir­ca April 27, 1926, Cleve­land, Ohio. Cleator’s family ev­i­dent­ly em­igrat­ed to Amer­i­ca in the 1870’s. She was liv­ing in Clar­idon, Ohio, in 1880, & Geau­ga Coun­ty, Ohio, in 1900, 1910, & 1920. She taught school in New York Ci­ty, re­tir­ing some time be­fore 1915. --hymntime.com/tch/ Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: When the smiling skies of spring
Title: Song of Spring
Author: Alice Jean Cleator
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Welcome happy days of spring
Copyright: Public Domain

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Uplifted Voices #163

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