March

Nora Hopper Chesson

1871 to 1906

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I go beneath triumphal arches 
Of linden-yellow and ash-green: 
I hang upon the elms and larches 
The colours of my May, the queen. 

Before me goes the first wild swallow, 
For me the daffodils delay: 
After my feet the flagflowers follow, 
And gorse grows gold about my way. 

Two wings are pinions at my shoulder, 
Two wings are plumes upon my feet: 
The earth that drowsed grows younger, bolder. 
And with warm mouth my kiss doth meet.