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RETURN by KENNETH SLADE ALLING

First Line: MARCH STIRS AND LIKE A SHAGGY BEAST HE SHAKES
Last Line: APRIL: OH EARTH; LET NOTHING NOW BEFALL HER.
Subject(s): APRIL; MARCH (MONTH); SPRING;
March stirs and like a shaggy beast he shakes.
The last and brightest rim of winter breaks,
Roofed round him and the clattering ice bits fall.
Far off and faintly, lo a madrigal
Is heard, riding the wind, and faintly drums:
And liquid, louder now a blithe hand strums
Taut gold; and scattering silver fragrance comes,
In terrible simplicity a child;
A girl; a woman; anything that's wild
And fosters wildness. April -- so they call her:
April: Oh earth; let nothing now befall her.



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