Poems (Tynan)/Love at Easter

by Katharine Tynan

LOVE AT EASTER

Sing to the Lord a new song!
 Because the Spring comes newly.
And every slender sapling
 Has budded green and red.
Sing to the Lord a new song!
 The skylark sings it truly,
Since all in dewy April
 His love and he are wed.

Sing to the Lord a new song!
 For every bird 's a lover,
And o'er the purple furrows
 The green spears nod and wave.
Sing to the Lord a new song!
 Since Lenten fasts are over,
And Easter 's gone in glory,
 And Christ has left the grave.

Sing to the Lord a new song!
 A song of love and wedding,
For every bird is building
 His nest in bower and tree.
Sing to the Lord a new song!
 The tufts of soft wool spreading
Where a brown wife and babies
 This April-tide shall be.