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April’s Amazing Meaning

April’s amazing meaning doubtless lies

  In tall hoarse boys and slips

Of slender girls with suddenly wider eyes

  And parted lips;

For girls will wander pensive in the spring

  When the green rain is over,

Doing some slow, inconsequential thing,

  Plucking clover;

And any boy alone upon a bench

  When his work’s done will sit

And stare at the black ground and break a branch

  And whittle it

Slowly; and boys and girls, irresolute,

  Will curse the dreamy weather

Until they meet past the pale hedge and put

  Their lips together.

—George Dillon