To Spring

Winter casts its cape aside Though frosts still greet the frigid earth. From which snowdrops take their pride And daffodils form an easy birth. Lambs leap in the early frosty dawn Taking their mother's milk with ease And crocuses sprout in the hedge and lawn With buds on the twig and stem do tease. Spring lightens up the days to please. Robins and blackbirds sing their song While magpies cruise with ravens in the sky As rabbits in fields run all day long With chicks in nests for their food do cry. The seed in the ground begins to stir As shepherds manage their lambing season The cat out catching rats begins to purr In the farm shed for no particular reason. We have seen the back of winters chill That cold chilling wind and driving rain, The dark nights and snow that snaps the will That makes old bones ache with pain. Summer is round the corner now, our gain.