Nothing is so beautiful as Spring – When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning
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In Eden garden. – Have, get, before it cloy, Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy, Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
GLOSSARY [2] wheels: circles
[11] Eden: the Garden of Eden is where Adam and Eve lived in the biblical account of the Creation
[11] cloy: cause disgust by being sickly sweet
[13] Mayday: Mary
[14] O maid’s child: Jesus Christ, child of the Virgin Mary [5]