Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPRING SONG, by WALT MASON



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First Line: Every sage this scheme indorses: make
Last Line: Demijohns.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring


EVERY sage this scheme indorses: Make your premises look neat; cart away the old

dead horses, burn the rubbish and repeat. For the spring should find our city
rid of every ugly thing; it will be a beastly pity, if we disappoint the spring.

In the spring the world is laundered by the soft, refreshing showers, and the
cleansing winds are squandered by Dame Nature at all hours; but the rainfall and

the breezes can't remove the trash and junk, which, like decomposing cheeses,
fill the air with perfume punk. Let us hustle, and abolish everything that draws

the flies; let us clean and paint and polish till our town delights the eyes.
Oh, I ought to sing the lily, when old winter ups and goes, and I ought to write

some silly balderdash about the rose, but I make my harpstrings rattle, urging
folks to clean their lawns; cart away dead cats and cattle, old tin cans and
demijohns.





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