Spring is a-coming...

a prayer in Spring

oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;

and give us not to think so far away

at the uncertain harvest, keep us here

all simply in the springing of the year

oh give us pleasure in the orchard white,
like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;

and make us happy in the happy bees

the swarm dilating round the perfect trees

and make us happy in the darting bird
that suddenly above the bees is heard

that meteor that thrusts in with needle bill

and of a blossom in mid air stands still

for this is love, and nothing else is love
to which it is reserved for God above

to sanctify to what far ends he will

but which it only needs that we fulfill

Robert Frost