Suddenly spring –
Sing like the birds of promise!
Lunatic angels, revel with new-found hope,
As soft as under-feathers,
Yet as sure
As little beaks that drink from gurgling streams!
Suddenly spring –
Sun, be no more a strange!
Flirt with the breezes, laugh with the ever-sky!
Hold fast to empty air, and find it lifts you
Above the doldrums of a deadened sea.
Suddenly spring –
Flowers remember music,
Bending each perfect petal in a curve,
Chattering songs as old and new as morning,
While bitterness departs into the gloom.
Suddenly spring –
Taste, o my soul, the perfume:
Symphonic jasmine cascading delight
Into our blossomed senses, our skin yearning,
For the bare warmth of air, sweet in its tasting.
Suddenly spring –
This is the dance of ages,
Stepped out afresh, even age does not weary.
Tumbling with laughter, we are become as children.
Suddenly spring.
