May is Mary’s month, and I
Muse at that and wonder why:
Her feasts follow reason
Dated due to season –
Candlemas, Lady Day:
But the Lady Month, May,
Why fasten that upon her,
With feasting in her honor?
Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply put this other
Question: What is Spring?
Growth in everything –
All things rising, all things sizing
Mary sees, sympathizing
With that world of good,
Nature’s motherhood.
Well but there was more than this:
Spring’s universal bliss
Much, had much to say
To offering Mary May.
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