Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1920 — SPRING POEM. [ARTICLE]

SPRING POEM.

Watertown, Wis. April 26, '2O Dear Mr. Editor: — No “Spring Poem” having appeared in your columns, I am sending one which may please some of your many readers. Here in the state we have had a long, cold winter, and are having a late spring. Garden-mak-ing has only just begun. Yours truly, Mrs. E. Kaub. APRIL. Boist’rous March has said good-bye, And the winter’s snow is gone; Warming sunshine, azure sky, Crucus’ smiling on the lawn— That’s April! Pussy willows by the brook. Creeping out in coats of gray Bursting buds where e’fe you look, Blue-birds coming back to stay— In April. Dripping sap and greening grass, Robin Redbreast’s “Cheer Up” call; Gentle breezes where you pass, Snowdrops by the southern wall — Mild April! Vanished sunshine, sullen sky, Cold, rough winds go hurrying past, While the skurrying snowflakes by, Greying clouds o’er all is cast — * That’s April! Smiles and weeping, laughter, tears, ’Neath the snow are May-flowers creeping; Joy and sorrow, hopes and fears, Frost and snow where buds are sleeping—- ’ Wild April! Myriad leaflets, tender green, Dainty flower-buds pushing thru; Sparkling rain-drops in between Rifts of sun-light; violets blue— Dear April! “The Flower Lady.”