Spring's Intimation
Hark, what blooms in yon window broke
Open in glorious hues?
Takes not many, only a fuse
Rising happy on a dis-a-mal ground
To shatter the bonds, yes, slip them sure
Of winter’s impermanent bound;
The unswayable force, the thrusting up up and up
From bulbs wakened from their
Seasonal pound
Offer again if proof need there be
That you cannot keep good tulips
Down
(Nor should you want to)
Your verdant thirsts unslak-ed
Will witness the mowings of lawns
In your town
And then come the leav-es unrak-ed
Til snow falls again
And bulbs go deep down
Sleep again most starkedly
Naked
[zep 3-27-08]
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