Show Jf or of By J. J E. E McKnight r. r This Js Is March lusty March Gusty March March just as as' ever rabid I March more more than ever crabbed Cant Can't you hear his burly note Surly note I In the throat Of the tongued many larch Such is March Rabid crabbed lusty gusty surly surly- burly March IT II This Is March ho Heigh-ho Hear Bear It blow Blow ow See it snow I Snow ow Thick and fast the sOft soft flakes flutter As it were They rhey were shaken from the hair Of some gOddess of the air Watch the dazed flakes In their flight See them start and twirl See them dart and swirl See them tumble In a drifting rifting jumble the brown earth with white All spangled oer o'er with gems gems of many man colored light Such Is March March- Hear It blow See it snow D III This Is March The sun shines out And wind and snow ar are put to rout Smiles for tears and nd hope for doubt The smiles were never quite so sweet I And hope but there the sun is in ref rei re- re i f treat Again Again He He hides his faces face Gone Of hope theres there's theres there's I left not een a trace I The frenzied orgy still is on Hear the wind blow See it snow Such 0 crocus such 0 larch Such is March IV This Is s March It snowS again It rains and shines and blows again ho Heigh-ho Sea it snow 1 He Hear r it bloW blow- blow brow blow Close the door Can you not Hear lt t roar Up ther there in the chimney pot To bird and beast and all mankind How truculent the mordant wind Hoarse Is March Coarse his voice his breath Is cold almost as that of Death Blow March Go March Go awa away I pray and stay away For a year for a year and a day aday But Dut no I I. I too have changed my mind For peering through the veil and sham of things as they appear To eye and fuddled ear I find That all this In the benign economy econom Of her maternal regency Is but a part of Natures Nature's plan I Good for flower and good for tree Good for beast and good for man man- Prerequisite indeed to all the life Ufe I Expressed In bursting bud prismatic I flower In lilting song and darting wing And all the vernal dower Or OJ beauty April loves to bring And so 0 raucous month of Mars Roar on or tattle rattle like the cars Or shriek or whine or screech or moan Or sing or ex sigh or hiss or hone Or boom or sob or sough I Or wail or croon or puff Or pule Or drool Aye let it rain or shine or snow And when it listeth th let it blow I I would not stop It If I could For such Is March And ADd March Is good |