Emerald Story Book

<h3><SPAN name="SPRING_STORIES_AND_LEGENDS">SPRING STORIES AND LEGENDS</SPAN></h3> <p class="titlepage"><span class="smaller">COMPILED BY</span><br/> ADA M. SKINNER<br/> <span class="smaller">AND</span><br/> ELEANOR L. SKINNER</p> <!--chapter--> <h3><SPAN name="APRIL">APRIL</SPAN></h3> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse indent12">The year’s at the spring</div> <div class="verse indent12">And day’s at the morn;</div> <div class="verse indent12">Morning’s at seven;</div> <div class="verse indent12">The hillside’s dew-pearled;</div> <div class="verse indent12">The lark’s on the wing;</div> <div class="verse indent12">The snail’s on the thorn:</div> <div class="verse indent12">God’s in his heaven—</div> <div class="verse indent12">All’s right with the world!</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse indent0">And after April, when May follows</div> <div class="verse indent0">And the whitethroat builds and all the swallows!</div> <div class="verse indent0">Hark! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge</div> <div class="verse indent0">Leans to the field and scatters on the clover</div> <div class="verse indent0">Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray’s edge—</div> <div class="verse indent0">That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,</div> <div class="verse indent0">Lest you should think he never could recapture</div> <div class="verse indent0">The first fine careless rapture!</div> <div class="verse indent0">And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,</div> <div class="verse indent0">All will be gay when noontide wakes anew</div> <div class="verse indent0">The buttercups, the little children’s dower—</div> <div class="verse indent0">—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse right"><i>Robert Browning.</i></div> </div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <!--chapter--> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="Page_3"></SPAN>[3]</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />