Tunxis Library at Tunxis Community College, Farmington, CT

Dear March – Come in –    

How glad I am –

I hoped for you before –

Put down your Hat –  

You must have walked –

How out of Breath you are –

Dear March, how are you, and the Rest –

Did you leave Nature well –

Oh March, Come right upstairs with me –

I have so much to tell –

I got your Letter, and the Birds –   

The Maples never knew that you were coming –

I declare – how Red their Faces grew –        

But March, forgive me –   

And all those Hills you left for me to Hue –    

There was no Purple suitable –  

You took it all with you –        

Who knocks? That April –

Lock the Door –

I will not be pursued –

He stayed away a Year to call   

When I am occupied –         

But trifles look so trivial

As soon as you have come

That blame is just as dear as Praise 

And Praise as mere as Blame –