Spring Is Here!

Once or twice this side of death
Things can make one hold his breath.

- Robert P. Tristram Coffin

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring -

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

Because there is so much made of strength and wealth and power;
because the little things are lost in this world,
I write this poem about lilacs knowing that both
are this day's only: tomorrow they will lie forgotten.

- Raymond Souster