Fool Messages
51. All the wild sweetness of the flower tangled against the wall it was that magic silent hour the branches grew so tall they twined themselves into a bower the sun shown and the fall of yellow blossom on the grass you feel that golden rain both of you could not hold alas both of you tried in vain a memory stranger so i pass it will not come again52. The years at spring and days at the morn mornings at seven the hill sidess dewpearled the larks on the wing the snails on the thorn gods in his heaven alls right with the world
53. How many million aprils came before i ever knew how white a cherry bough could be a bed of squills how blue and many a dancing april when life is done with me will lift the blue flame of the flower and the white flame of the tree oh burn me with your beauty then oh hurt me tree and flower lest in the end death try to take even this glistening hour
54. No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn april is a promise that may is bound to keep and we know it
55. Meadowlarks give lusty cheers when spring appears when spring appears buds and seeds prick up their ears and blades of grass show eager spears and only icicles weep tears when spring appears when spring appears
56. Spring has again returned the earth is like a child that knows many poems many o so many for the hardship of such long learning she receives the prize strict was her teacher the white in the old mans beard pleases us now what to call green to call blue we dare to ask she knows she knows
57. My wretched feet flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of january began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of april the nights and mornings no longer by their canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins we could now endure the playhour passed in the garden
58. In my old home which i forsook the cherries are in bloom
59. Late april and you are three today we dug your garden in the yard to curb the damage of your play strange dogs at night and the moles tunneling four slender sticks of lath stand guard uplifting their thin string so you were the first to tramp it down and after the earth was sifted close you brought your watering can to drown all earth and us but these mixed seeds are pressed with light loam in their steadfast rows child weve done our best
60. Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms
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