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APRIL DAY by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM

First Line: THERE IS A HOLINESS ABOUT AN APRIL DAY
Last Line: OF ALL THESE GALLANT FOLK!
Subject(s): APRIL;

THERE is a holiness about an April day --
A blaze of consecrated light.
Like rising altar smoke the mists are slowly cleared,
Leaving the heavens white.

There is a stateliness in April's silver rain
Like priestesses; a purity
In wet dawn fields where cherry blossoms are unfurled
That cleans and brightens me.

There is a holiness about an April day;
A whispered prayer among the oak. . .
@3O burn me with the terrible loveliness one hour
Of all these gallant folk!@1



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