Poem for 4-12-09

[cbtreks]

April 12 was Easter, so more George Herbert seems appropriate. (And I'm caught up! I've technically posted a poem for every day in April so far, even though I had to do double posts for awhile to get it done.)

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Easter Song

I Got me flowers to straw Thy way,
I got me boughs off many a tree;
But Thou wast up by break of day,
And brought’st Thy sweets along with Thee.

The sunne arising in the East,
Though he give light, and th’ East perfume,
If they should offer to contest
With Thy arising, they presume.

Can there be any day but this,
Though many sunnes to shine endeavour?
We count three hundred, but we misse:
There is but one, and that one ever.

(by George Herbert)