Ventures Into Verse / Being various ballads, ballades, rondeaux, triolets, songs, quatrains, odes and roundels, all rescued from the potters' field of old files and here given decent burial

by H. L. Mencken

IV—April

At dawn a gay gallant comes to the eaves

And trills a song unto his lady fair,

And then, above the reach of boyish thieves,

A building nest sways in the balmy air;

One day a flower upon a window sill

Puts forth a bud, and as its beauty grows

The sun—gay prodigal!—with life-light glows,

The while he reads the doom of storms and snows;

And then—and then—there comes the springtime's thrill!