First of Light (And Spring)

Send us Fan MailFirst and Light Across the first, the light of morning, beneath the fading fall of stars,April awaits through the light of dawn, and grey,for beyond the meadows,awaits the birth of life,of Springand today.For above the terrace,still sleeping,the early bloom of flowers,a breeze, the first of summerlifts the silence to hear the birdsong upon the broken brickand garden wallto pleaseThey lift the hush of memories summer bidding the dream of Spring to awaken and singbut the morningis closedand silentheeding not the summer’s cry and call to  bring For time is travelling across the seasons, a measured dance of hours beyond the valleys begins the chimes the awakening world awaits the turn and his calling, as upon the Easter tide across the quiet citythe echoes of church and towers,he singsAs today, the earth is ready and fertile, the tress in bud and bough, ready for the summer sky to hold, the wind will shake the winter overnightinto the deeper [email protected]