Page:Flame and Shadow.djvu/84

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.

MAY DAY

A delicate fabric of bird song
Floats in the air,
The smell of wet wild earth
Is everywhere.


Red small leaves of the maple
Are clenched like a hand,
Like girls at their first communion
The pear trees stand.


Oh I must pass nothing by
Without loving it much,
The raindrop try with my lips,
The grass with my touch;


[65]