It's May
Today is May 1. The month of April did have many showers; so let's see if it will bring a lot of May flowers! 'Tis Merry In Greenwood ~Walter Scott 'Tis merry in greenwood-thus runs the old lay,- In the gladsome month of lively May, When the wild birds' song on stem and spray Invites to forest bower; Then rears the ash his airy crest, Then shines the birch in silver vest, And the beech in glistening leaves is drest, And dark between shows the oak's proud breast, Like a chieftain's frowning tower; Though a thousand branches join their screen, Yet the broken sunbeams glance between, And tip the leaves with lighter green, With brighter tints the flowers; Dull is the heart that loves not then The deep recess of the wildwood glen, Where roe and red-deer find sheltering den, When the sun is in his power.