Spring is coming! Spring is coming, With its life-awak'ning showers. Spring is coming! Spring is coming, With its dews and balmy breeze. Then the earth will cease its sadness, Loosed from winter's icy chain: 0, the birds with music greeting, Then will pour a welcome strain, INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY. Words by C. W. SANDERS. B. A. RUSSELL 1. Come where shady groves are ringing Music sweet from all the trees; 2. Come where streams are gently flowing, Softly murm'ring thro' the vales, 19: Where the merry birds are singing, And the sweetest flowers are flinging All their fragrance to the breeze, All their fragrance to the breeze. On the hills, and in the dales. Allegretto. I LOVE THE WEST. C. W. SANDERS. 8 1. I love the west, the gallant west, With its bright and sunny streams. 2. I love the west, the mighty west, With its wild and shady glens, The land of the brave, the land of the free, The land of my childhood's 'Tis there the dash-ing water - fall Majestic beau-ty |