Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IX. Tragedy: Humor. 1904. | | | | Humorous Poems: IV. Ingenuities: Oddities | | The Lawyer’s Invocation to Spring | | Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) |
| | | WHEREAS, on certain boughs and sprays | |
| Now divers birds are heard to sing, | |
| And sundry flowers their heads upraise, | |
| Hail to the coming on of spring! | |
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| The songs of those said birds arouse | 5 |
| The memory of our youthful hours, | |
| As green as those said sprays and boughs, | |
| As fresh and sweet as those said flowers. | |
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| The birds aforesaid,—happy pairs,— | |
| Love, mid the aforesaid boughs, inshrines | 10 |
| In freehold nests; themselves, their heirs, | |
| Administrators, and assigns. | |
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| O busiest term of Cupid’s Court, | |
| Where tender plaintiffs actions bring,— | |
| Season of frolic and of sport, | 15 |
| Hail, as aforesaid, coming spring! | | | | |
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