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

by Anne Hinchman

XXXVI Translated from Charles D'Orleans.

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

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

Fountain and stream and river wideBedeck 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.