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A CLIMATIC MADRIGAL, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is time to go a-maying
Last Line: When we have such splendid sleighing!
Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Weather


IT is time to go a-Maying
When the frost is in the air,
When the snowy boughs are swaying
And the fields are white and fair;
It is joy, indeed, to wander
Through the bosky dells and glades,
For it makes a man grow fonder
Of the snow through which he wades.
'Tis particularly pleasing —
Maying with your fingers freezing.

Hear the robins' merry chatter,
Hark the songs that they repeat
While they wonder what's the matter
As they nurse their frozen feet!
See the butterflies leap gayly
As they dance adown the breeze —
They must exercise thus daily
Or with asthma they will wheeze.
O't is joyous to go Maying
When the world about is playing.

See the lambkin as it gambols
On the hillside near its dam,
How on the frozen slopes it scrambles —
Cunning, gentle, frigid lamb!
How the honeybees are humming,
Droning music as they go —
See, a few of them are coming
Coasting on the flakes of snow!
How the tender leaves are shaking
As from the boughs they're breaking.

Come, we'll share our joys together;
Welcome spring with hearts elate,
Fare forth in the balmy weather —
We can either stroll or skate.
Going Maying thus is joyous
In our furs and overshoes,
With no sunstrokes to annoy us —
Who another mood would choose?
It is pleasant to go Maying
When we have such splendid sleighing!





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