Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 3, March 1902 — Poems: Easter Carol and Spring

EASTER CAROL.

Hepatica, anemone, And bloodroot snowy white, With their pretty wildwood sisters, Are opening to the light.

Each blossom bears a message That a little child may read, Of the wondrous miracle of life Hid in the buried seed.

In the woods and fields and gardens We may find the blessed words Writ in beauty, and may hear them, Set in music by the birds.

It is Nature’s Easter carol, And we, too, with gladness sing, For we see the Life immortal In the promise of the spring.

—Anna M. Pratt, From “Among Flowers and Trees with the Poets.

” SPRING.

O beautiful world of green!

When bluebirds carol clear, And rills outleap, And new buds peep, And the soft sky seems more near;

With billowy green and leaves,—what then?

How soon we greet the red again!

G.

Cooper, “Round the Year.

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