Song Of A Second April

 

"There is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs."
-L.M. Montgomery

The Mill Stream In Spring

Arthur Hopkins

(1848-1930)

British artist

April this year, not otherwise

 Than April of a year ago,

Is full of whispers, full of sighs,

 Of dazzling mud and dingy snow;

Hepaticas that pleased you so

 Are here again, and butterflies.

There rings a hammering all day, 

And shingles lie about the doors;

In orchards near and far away 

The grey wood-pecker taps and bores;

The men are merry at their chores,

 And children earnest at their play.

The larger streams run still and deep, 

Noisy and swift the small brooks run

Among the mullein stalks the sheep

 Go up the hillside in the sun,

Pensively,-only you are gone, 

You that alone I cared to keep.

"Song Of A Second April"
(1921)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892-1950)
 American poetess