APRIL VESPERS

The turtles drum in the pulseless bay,

The crickets creak in the prickful hedge,

The bull-frogs boom in the puddling sedge

And the whoopoe whoops its vesper lay

Away

In the twilight soft and gray.

Two lovers stroll in the glinting gloam—

His hand in her'n and her'n in his—

She blushes deep—he is talking biz—