1955
in Spring comes
Composed by 
Dominick Argento
Dominick Argento Text by 
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings Songs About Spring Song Collection
"in Spring comes" is the fourth song of Dominick Argento's Songs About Spring cycle, which sets five poems of e. e. cummings.
"in" was published in cummings's 1950 volume XAIPE.
Text
in
by e. e. cummings
in
Spring comes(no-
one
asks his name)
a mender
of things
with eager
fingers(with
patient
eyes)re
-new-
ing remaking what
other
-wise we should
have
thrown a-
way(and whose
brook
-bright flower-
soft bird
-quick voice loves
children
and sunlight and
mountains)in april(but
if he should
Smile)comes
nobody’ll know
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