Fool Messages
111. If spring came but once in a century instead of once a year or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change but now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity to most men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of gods power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be112. When the april wind wakes the call for the soil i hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth and as i follow through the fresh and fragrant furrow i am planted with every footstep growing budding blooming into a spirit of spring
113. This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green wild puffing of emerald trees and flamefilled bushes thornblossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between where the wood fumes up and the watery flickering rushes i am amazed at this spring this conflagration of green fires lit on the soil of the earth this blaze of growing and sparks that puff in wild gyration faces of people streaming across my gaze
114. Now that the winters gone the earth hath lost her snowwhite robes and now no more the frost candies the grass or casts an icy cream upon the silver lake or crystal stream but the warm sun thaws the benumbed earth and makes it tender gives a sacred birth to the dead swallow wakes in hollow tree the drowsy cuckoo and the humblebee now do a choir of chirping minstrels bring in triumph to the world the youthful spring
115. I sing of brooks of blossoms birds and bowers of april may or june and july flowers i sing of maypoles hockcarts wassails wakes of bridegrooms brides and of the bridal cakes
116. Sweet april showers do spring may flowers
117. Let the rain kiss you let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops let the rain sing you a lullaby the rain makes still pools on the sidewalk the rain makes running pools in the gutter the rain plays a little sellpsong on our roof at night and i love the rain
118. When the time is ripe for certain things these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring
119. Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden in the spring when it is gone
120. The april rain the april rain comes slanting down in fitful showers then from the furrow shoots the grain and banks are fledged with nestling flowers and in grey shawl and woodland bowers the cuckoo through the april rain calls once again
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