OH BOK WHERE IS THY SPRING?
H time of cakes and ale and pots of flesh and balm in Gilead! Come let ‘us write a sonnet, ode, or better still an Iliad. When all the parks are blazing with narcissus and anemone, And window boxes looking like the Garden of Gethsemane, You can’t deny it makes you want. to sing. When all around the countryside the sheep are getting motherly, When people in the cities feel more sisterly and brotherly, When Wellington experiences yet another southerlySing loud hey nonny nonnies for the spring. The heart leaps up in springtime like a rocket out of Woomera, We wait for new potatoes and acquire a taste for kumara, And down in the Antarctic doughty deeds are being done again, As husky dogs and Englishmen go out in the midnight sun again, Full of the hope that nature will be kind. In every quarter acre rows of seeds are neatly sown again, And radishes and silver beet and lettuce can be grown again, And then I am reminded when the grass has to be mown again-
4I spring comes is May tever tar behindr
R. G.
P.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 892, 7 September 1956, Page 8
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194OH BOK WHERE IS THY SPRING? New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 892, 7 September 1956, Page 8
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