Show I G if f IID n o IB e Q JJ After today spring poetry will wUl be out of season seaon The lid will willbe be on for at least another year with the spring poem editor sitting on top For two weeks The Herald has defied the spring poets to do their worst They Th y did it The response to this reckless challenge has been little less than an avalanche From the sunbaked mesas of the San Juan coun country country country try to the tIe wilds of ot northern Idaho and Wyoming from the extreme limits of the Uintah reservation on the east and from the remote mining camps amps of Nevada on the west the poetic fever has burned Itself Into a frenzy Now it Is all over It is finished No longer will copy readers compositors ors and proof readers feel reel their brains whirling In maze of ot rippling rills babbling brooks balmy breezes and warblers From now on spring poets and spring poems will be stopped at the outside gate Here Hereafter Hereafter after atter the answer will be nit nope not on your life Next spring perhaps if It It again seems necessary to ease the poetic pressure convulsing the com corn The Herald will come forward and offer Its columns and one of Its editors as a sacrifice to the public welfare But until then the waste bas basket basket ket will yawn for tor all poems professional or amateur amateurs scented or slovenly with or without lovely photographs good bad or Indifferent In the meantime three gentlemen of ot highest standing In the community have consented to act as judges of ot the combat They will retire from ac active active active tive pursuits and devote their time for several days to the task of ot sifting sitting the great mass of virgin verbiage and selecting the winners of the various prizes It should be borne In mind that the limitations of space have pre prevented prevented prevented vented the publication of more than a fraction of the total number of con contributions contributions but all will receive consideration in making the awards The 11 announcement of the winners willbe will be made in next Sundays Herald Now dearest Johnny spring has come Dig up u the tho garden go It some Tare up the carpets beat them well Gracious said Johnny this Is h hll hil 11 Pull down the curtains said Sweep walls and ceiling strip the bed Sweetheart said Johnny stop right here Each year Ive done It for you dear But now Ive money send for Sam Tell with expense dont give a d dm m Epilogue When ben you hav hay no money your wife Is your honey have got money mane the dough Is your honey SELiA SELA SPRING Tap tap I 1 see a crack Out steps the little thing A dark spot on its beak A yellow fluffy wing And there on tiny Uny legs With sharpest little eyes It its beak and begs For crumbs of bread or flies Spring chicks are toothsome things Well fried in butter fat And brilliant chicken wings Adorn the new spring hat SPRING Love breathes upon the world we call it spring Wakes now from deathlike sleep each bud and ard flower The birds come back of crimson downy wing All nature feels this wondrous subtle power The woods put on their dress of dainty green It deepens as the year Is older grown The sun his splendor lends to gild the scene The moon her silver sliver oer over the world hath bath thrown The sky with changing hues enfolds the earth She too her brilliant tint has donned again Gay Cay wedding chimes song long or mirth the world with one long glad retrain refrain THE AWAKENING OF SPRING The Winter Inter breaks The Spring awakes aukes How Joyful she trips along She Sho gives the rills tills and vales and hills A thousand merry mrry m rry tongues of song son She bids the flowers and birds and bowers bovers Return again till far and nigh S Our Utah lies a paradise A rainbow fallen from the sky She fills the earth with love loe and mirth Sets industry upon the th wing Her song of cheer rings sweet and clear And nd all aU the world is listening THEODORE E B CURTIS AN INDIAN ROMANCE YI Tl TU Yi Spring Spring Spring Joy Joy jO Joy Big Chief sing Birds birds birds Trees trees trees Girl girl girl Big Chief sees Sigh sigh sigh Love Ioe love love lore June come soon No more spoon Heap big cry so soNo soo soNo No o more sing No more Spring Ugh Ugh lIebbe so INDIAN JIM SPRING IS HERE HE E Spring is coming Spring Is coming The little streams with Joy are running A robin is singing in yonder onder tree Carolling gaily gall so wild and aid free The blue birds building his hla eyrie nest Working and weaving nor stopping to rest The sun eun has ever a golden beam For prairie and mountain lake and stream And everywhere from far tar and near Nature is calling Spring Is here VERA A WILLIAMS Rowland Hall APRIL The violets are peeping through h the mold The crous crocus blossoming on hill and lea leaThe leaThe leaThe The blackbirds liquid notes of at molten gold cold Foretell the glories that are yet to be beThe beThe beThe The sunshine falls upon the earths great greal floor And weaves we tes a velvet elvet carpet for the ground While tinkling brooks and rivers rush rosh and roar roars Fill all the listening air with silver sound The apple trees put on their flowery flower gown gowns The world Is decked in all its gala gay And Aprils tearful smiles without a frown Await A walt the coming of her sister May MayEmma MayEmma MayEmma Emma Thomas Rowland Hall Hail SPRING Winters gone with Its frost and snow All AH natures rests complete The eye oe of ee thing Opens from Its Ha chilly chill sleep I The earth arth with smiles of f mellowed soil Bids welcome to us all nil Produces courage to every ever toll toil bj Alike to great and small Each plant and tree receives new sap From mother earths supply Which Thich sends forth buds and scented flow flowers flowers ers Do we enjoy them you OU and I IO IO O 0 Spring why thou with us stay sta And perpetuate our pleasures Why hy dost thou leave us here h re to wilt In summers sun and i These thoughts of theo are nothing new Pleasant thoughts return again Like the clear cool water in the brook Is replenished by the rain Jesse Jcsse H U Giles Tooele Utah I THE COMING OF SPRING Winter shivered and an awful blast As Spring finally his Icy Ic barriers past She stood there inside dreary and cold For Mother Earth looked so frozen and cold coldSpring coldSpring coldSpring Spring was not not no daunted she must smile Mother Earth faltered Just a little while Then her lips parted her face grew bright Mother Earth laughed with all nfl her might The mountains stretched higher the sky grew blue bluer This valley valle so old seemed a valley Just new Every mountain brook with music soun sounded sounded ded dedEe Every Ee human heart with some Joy bounded v EDITH ACHESON ACHSON ACH SON K Street EARLY SPRING Come ye so early Days Das of delight Making the hillside Blithesome and bright Merrily merrily Little brook rush Down Dowa the meadow Under the bush bus Welkin and hilltop Azure and cool Fishes are sporting In streamlet and pool Birds of gay feather Flit through the grove Singing together Ditties of love Busily coming moss covered bowers Brown bees are humming Questing for flowers Lightsome emotion Life everywhere Faint wafts warts of fragrance Scenting the air airow Now ow comes their rounding A sigh of the breeze Shakes throughout the thicket Sinks in the trees tree Sinks by returning It ruffles my m hair Aid me this rapture Muse to bear Miss Celestia Robinson North Main Mam street LE PRINTEMPS Today a bluebird harbinger of Spring Flew past my ray window perched upon a tree And there with lightsome heart began to sing n I And this Is what he seemed to say to tome tome tome II me I Winter is past and lo to the spring Is I come spring all garlanded with flowers Green are the meadows and the tuneful hum Of bees awakened fills the lengthening hours Hearts too awake and throb In tune to all The Joy the melody the hope of spring Man Ian seeks his mate and I to mine do call With heart so full of love I can but sing C V Care Pembroke Stationery Co 64 54 50 W r South A SPRINGTIME ODE I could sing a day bout sweet May for May typifies fair Spring Springtime Springtime Springtime time But Id rather say nil of March and April only partly cause they wont rhyme But mostly cause they either blow you ou away or soak you in mud to your chin An if the skies smile Jest once In a awhile awhile awhile while next ne t it howls like old Sin Each year that passes sulphur and mo molasses molasses molasses lasses the flies an pesky garden gardenIng gardenIng gardening Ing Come back on the track o the that bloom In Inthe Inthe inthe the Spring Long with other which mother spends hours to grow on a bonnet That sometimes makes poor dad feel most awful bad badover over the damages on It Yet of oraU all pests that Join for the coin from a hard liard bloke The worst is that one women seem to thinks fun the hardy unfailing Spring Joke jake They The call housecleaning t aint merely the smell o 0 paint an soap nor the work Im willin whIm To admit their utility its the bill a poor cuss cusa cant shirk killin kuhn LESTER MERRILL MERRILLA A SPRING SALAD SALAD The beautiful spring Is sprung prong On the line the carpet is hung hun Now comes that dreamy dream feeling But the back yard work is stealing I 4 j All the comfort of air and sky sin And house cleaning brings a sigh Oh Spring S if one could but ramble And forget the mine stock gamble Stroll with Nature hand In hand And Am watch the farmer till the land Never read but write spring sonnets Admire but never pay pa for bonnets R U Tempted BEAUTIFUL SPRING Beautiful spring with your our smiles and frowns Beautiful ladles ladies with bonnets and gowns Beautiful flowers with your our colors and shades All things bright please the Salt Lake maids Beautiful sunshine everywhere Beautiful free life Ufe without a care Beautiful birds with your of praise Beautiful balmy bright spring days L LH H I 1 JOYOUS SPRING Early In the pleasant spring Beauty comes the pretty thing In the buds upon the trees In the wind upon the breeze In the grass upon the lawn lawnIn lawnIn lawnIn In the clouds before the dawn In the flowers blossoming Beauty comes oh Joyous spring H II B BA BA A SPRING AD ADAll I All nature hopes for tor for spring and why not I ITo ITo ITo To place an ad Im going to try If in The Herald Twill surely bring bringA A hubby dear to me this spring The ad twill read Wanted yes let me tue see seeA seeA seeA A lonely maid of ot twentythree With dark blue eyes and curly hair Refined In manners no means to spare A man to be her debonair His heart to give her love to share Yes that will do a line or two sure to bring a hubby true If In The Herald the ad appears sure to happen I 1 have no fears WHICH SHALL IT BE Will the blossoms which bloom all aglow In splendor and fragrance sure bring Ripened fruit or will bleak frost and snow Destroy the sweet promise of spring Will m the beautiful bud be bo a rose And seasoning weather agree Or will hand Interpose And clip the young oung bud from the tree Will the hope newborn be he a truth And live for gain Or will it wither and die In its youth And leave but the signet of pain HARRY TAYLOR Louth t Eighth East Salt Lake SPRING when Natures fond affection Gives her lilies their complexion And the season Utah greets with honest pride the season of contentment Where here true Natures true presentment Bids the dewdrops kiss the side by b side WALTER ALTER EMMETT I 3 St Ogden SPRING POETRY The spring poem editor of The Herald has gone mad hauled him off to Provo where some respites to be had But as yet they the dare not put him In a cell without a pad Speak softly Utah poets for his case is very cry bad He has an hallucination that he once got up an ad adFor adFor adFor For poetry the kind in Utah to be had I And that all at once ibis sort of thing was an universal fad But instead of poems there came to him what made him very mad Spring rhymes rh mes of all aU descriptions have turned his brain poor lad DECEITFUL SPRING Spring comes knocking at our door We Ve bid her welcome In While Winter standing Just behind Strives to hide a grin grint t We lay la aside our winter clothes We Ye eVen eten een make m ke our garden Then i ler steps forth again Not even asking pardon With cruel icy Ic fingers I He takes us by the ear Saying Saing You may rush the work ork of man along But not the seasons of the year ear In case of accident please address Box Springville Utah SPRING A tender green on the hillsides bare A deeper tint in the valleys below I A scent of flowers on the vibrant air A touch of warmth in the suns bright glow glowA ow owA A sense of freedom a wish to flee Oer hillside way wa or the valley green An exultant Joy a childish glee A happiness born of youth so keen Such maddening Joy of love of life That our blood runs wild until we sing sine sin The worlO is alive alle with love rife rite And we C shout aloud spring spring Jemima Oakley Oakle No 3 Zimmerman Apartments SPRING The Tue birds are singing blithe and gay Glad the tile spring sun shines today Across the lake comes a rippling breeze spring awaken gentle bees Blossoms of fruit trees scent the air Tell of honey hone hidden n there Where here meadows fair awake from sleep We must plant ere eye time to reap Farewell to winters Ice and snow Icy Ic winds that fiercely blow For winter now gives way to spring Happy birds are here to sing C E James Vernon Utah SPRING Spring 0 O thou gentle spring at last Once more thy banners thou dost un unfold unfold unfold fold The winters hoary mist has passed The year begun the happy happ days das retold As the years ears roll by once more forever With honest labor wa we w will be beA beA beA A springs beginning a bold endeavor That cast Its Us image all with thee th e eThen Then thou 0 O beauteous Spring Thy Th garlands plan for tor summers reign And so with all aU thy heralds bring The warm sweet days of at spring again Annie Jj j Moody Fay Fa Nev Ncr SPRING Spring the queen of the seasons Is with us once again I How it gladdens the hearts of children I And makes lighter the burdens of men menY Y Utah spring weather Is weather sublime Though how long It will viii last i Is I a matter of time But go where you will willI I will venture to say I INo No weather can beat beatA I IA A Utah spring day da I Mrs Irs C L Cunnington West Sev Sey Seventh I South street I ITHE THE SPRING CALL I Vagabond born would I 1 change my ways Could I see Lifes reaches as others see dee deeHer Her steadfast rules roles and her measured days Or be as others be beFar beFar beFar Far leads the road and the lure is sweet Strange voices call ever Away Awa away awa Where the th rainbow colors and earths edge meet I cannot rest or stay Heart of ot me sighs with the winds and sings With the songs of birds and the breath of birth And Im born anew with the Joys of o Springs The tones of life and earth Year after year when the tile first voice calls The yearning grows new with no full surcease surcease Till the will and the rule of me rae droops dr oops and falls The TIle primal claims It ease Over the crest distant hills O 0 Oland land of ot magic I may not know Shall I clearer see when the last breath chills Or 01 Orl learn arn the way to H S NUT UT Fussy Errors In Pleasant Easy Spring Spring Poetry Editor of The Herald You did me the distinguished honor on last Sunday to print the easy lines Unes writ written written written ten by me on pleasant spring While I 1 Iam Iam am glad to thank you for the consideration tion I 1 must confess even at the cost of appearing fussy that errors permitted to appear were very ver trying to me as they would be to any anyone one with warrantable pre pro pretensions pretensIons tensions to I l am too mod modest modest modest est to refer to my own writings in strong stronger er words Far be it from f om me to suggest that there was Intent to defeat me from winning the chief prize to be awarded but it is inconceivable that the tho 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