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Today is the day when bold
kites fly,
When cumulus clouds roar across the sky.
When robins return, when children cheer,
When light rain beckons Spring to appear.
Today is the day when daffodils bloom,
Which children pick to fill the room,
Today is the day when grasses green,
When leaves burst forth for Spring to be seen.
Robert McCracken |
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The Daffodils
Aileen Fisher
The daffodils, the daffodils.
They plan it all ahead:
They bottle yellow sunshine up
To take along to bed.
They know that they will sleep for months
Till cold and snow are gone,
And so they bottle sunshine up
Before they start to yawn.
And then when Spring is not-quite warm,
And days are not quite mellow,
They poke up little goblets full
Of yellow, yellow, yellow. |
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9-11-01