Spring Scenes: A Photojournal

Blows the thaw-wind pleasantly,

Drips the soaking rain,

By fits looks down the waking sun:

Young grass springs on the plain;

Young leaves clothe early hedgerow trees;

Seeds, and roots, and stones of fruits,

Swollen with sap put forth their shoots;

Curled-headed ferns sprout in the lane;

Birds sing and pair again.

~ Christina Rossetti, Spring

New hope

New paths

New growth

New potential

New life

New animals

New friends

New plans

New beauty

New vision

There is no time like Spring,

When life's alive in everything,

Before new nestlings sing,

Before cleft swallows speed their journey back

Along the trackless track--

God guides their wing,

He spreads their table that they nothing lack,--

Before the daisy grows a common flower,

Before the sun has power

To scorch the world up in his noontide hour.

~Christina Rossetti, Spring