Show The April Girl G rl i By JAMES J MONTAGUE I l I IN N t e morning momin call catI me early call me early mother moth r dear dearr dearl r the whitly l pearly P April beautiful is IS here hue huer r I u f my r y in galoshes with the dawning first fint faint flush nushAn An f It hasten huten forth Earth a tva din ding and parading through the l e slush nile the airy airy snowflakes prinIe on my fairy nose nosed f nd d the sleet taps on my gauzy Easter Ester clothes r I pi 0 H I love Jove dear April mother when the mercury shoots d down n nAnd And the blizzards little brother comes careering through the town When ones modish Easter Euter bonnet with its smart inverted brim And a market garden on it from the apex aPac ap to the rim tim Looks beneath the sifting drifting shifting snow of one one brief bri day dayLie Like Lie broiled lobster served with cream sauce or tomato up frappe I i LET T ET the morbid mollycoddle by the radiator stew tew As for me I long to toddle up on Brainstorm avenue Where the motor cars are sneezing in the lowering glowering dark And one hears heaD the robins freezing in the purlieus of the park Where the trees in forms fantastic bow beneath the straining storm And the weather flag sarcastic t signals Wednesday fait and warm I If Ifo rF o H HI I Its April April mother and its it gentle gentIe balmy Spring Though Tho gb the knee snowdrifts smother flathouse street and every everything eVerything everything thing t I Though the skies are not the bluest and one call it hot Dress me in the radiant raiment that Ive rye got And when Im gone remember the refrain of that glad song In November or December Summertime Will ViII Come Along |