Poems (Hinchman)/The year has cast his cloak aside

by Anne Hinchman

XXXVI Translated from Charles D'Orleans.

The year has cast his cloak aside
His cloak of wind and cold and rain;
A shining suit of sun has ta'en
And cloth'd himself in broider'd pride.

And bird and beast on every side
Calls in his jargon or sweet strain,
"The year has cast his cloak aside."

Fountain and stream and river wide
Bedeck themselves with silver chain,
For lovely raiment each is fain:
The world is dress'd in garments pied,
The year has cast his cloak aside.