The Poetry Corner

Song.

By Francis Brett Young

Why have you stolen my delight In all the golden shows of Spring When every cherry-tree is white And in the limes the thrushes sing, O fickler than the April day, O brighter than the golden broom, O blither than the thrushes' lay, O whiter than the cherry-bloom, O sweeter than all things that blow ... Why have you only left for me The broom, the cherry's crown of snow, And thrushes in the linden-tree?