Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1912 — The ONLOOKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The ONLOOKER

by WILBVR D. NESBIT

SPW'i'JIERE

I know that it is spring, though I hear no robin sing, Though I see no Jeweled flashing of the blue bird on the wing; I know that spring is here, though no laughing leaves appear, Though the snowflakes scurry swiftly through the chilly atmosphere; Yet still ’tis spring, T know, though no dandelions blow And the meadows still are sleeping ’neath their covering of snow; I even know ’tis spring though no poets rise and sing In a Hoosier dialectic roundelay made of “Bejing!” No balmy southern breeze brings the humming of the bees And no marvel-sweep o? blossoms bursts upon the apple trees, Yet I know that spring has come, though the frogs are sleeping, dumb, And the fingers that would play upon the pipes of Pan are numb. But this symptom never falls-*—every spring one’s eye it hails. So I’ll sing ’tis spring, although we’re swept by fiercest arctic gales. Spring is with us; spring is here; in the dally prints ‘appear Many wild, prophetic statements that a miner’s strike is near.