The Easter Decorations

O take away your dried and painted garlands!

The snow-cloth’s fallen from each quicken’d brow,

The stone’s rolled off the sepulchre of winter,

And risen leaves and flowers are wanted now.

Send out the little ones, that they may gather

With their pure hands the firstlings of the birth,-

Green-golden tufts and delicate half-blown blossoms,

Sweet with the fragrance of the Easter earth;

Great primrose bunches, with soft, damp moss clinging

To their brown fibres, nursed in hazel roots;

And violets from the shady banks and copses,

And wood-anemones, and white hawthorn shoots;

And tender curling fronds of fern, and grasses

And crumpled leaves from brink of babbling rills,

With cottage-garden treasures-pale narcissi

And lilac plumes and yellow daffodils.

Open the doors, and let the Easter sunshine

Flow warmly in and out, in amber waves,

And let the perfume floating round our altar

Meet the new perfume from the outer graves.

And let the Easter “Alleluia!” mingle

With the sweet silver rain-notes of the lark;

Let us all sing together!-Lent is over,

Captivity and winter, death and dark.

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• The Garden by Abraham Cowley by Abraham Cowley
• A Paraphrase on an Ode in Horace’s Third Book, beginning thus:— “Inclusam Danaen turris ahenea.” by Abraham Cowley by Abraham Cowley
• O fortunatus nimium, etc., a translation out of Virgil by Abraham Cowley by Abraham Cowley
• The Essay on Agriculture by Abraham Cowley by Abraham Cowley
• Obscurity, the Essay and Poems on Obscurity by Abraham Cowley by Abraham Cowley
• The Death Of A Fly by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
• The Changeling by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
• The Breast by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
• The Autopsy by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
• The Alfresco Moment by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
• A Performance At Hog Theater by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
• Erasing Amyloo by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
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• The Closet by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
• Soup Song by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
• The Bridge by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
• Mr. Brain by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
• One Lonely Afternoon by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
• Ape And Coffee by Russell Edson by Russel Edson
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