Garden Blogger's Muse Day - April 1, 2010

Blood Root (from my Aunt MEA) blooms today.

Now infant April joins the spring,
And views the watery sky,
As youngling linnet tries its wing,
And fears at first to fly;
With timid steps she ventures on,
And hardly dares to smile,
Till blossoms open one by one
And sunny hours beguile.

But finer days are coming yet,
With scenes more sweet to charm,
And suns arrive that rise and set
Bright strangers to a storm.
Then, as the birds with louder song
Each morning's glory cheer,
With bloder steps she speeds along,
And loses all her fear.

In wanton gambols, like a child,
She tends her early toils,
And seeks the bud along the wild,
That blossoms while she smiles,
Or, laughing on, with naught to chide,
She races with the Hours,
Or sports by Nature's lovely side,
And fills her lap with flowers.

---John Clare

Happy April 1st!

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