Love at Easter
Sing to the Lord a new song!
Because the Spring comes newly.
And every slender sapling
Has budded green and red.
Sing to the Lord a new song!
The skylark sings it truly,
Since all in dewy April
His love and he are wed.
Sing to the Lord a new song!
For every bird's a lover,
And o'er the purple furrows
The green spears nod and wave.
Sing to the Lord a new song!
Since Lenten fasts are over.
And Easter 's gone in glory.
And Christ has left the grave.
Sing to the Lord a new song!
A song of love and wedding,
For every bird is building
His nest in bower and tree.
Sing to the Lord a new song!
The tufts of soft wool spreading
Where a brown wife and babies
This April-tide shall be.
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Katharine Tynan (1861-1931)
from Poems, 1901
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada, the United States, and the European Union]
Katharine Tynan biography
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