Love at Easter / Katharine Tynan

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]

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