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March (Edward Thomas)

from Poetry and Music 11 by Toby Darling

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March - Poem by Edward Thomas

Em
Now I know that Spring will come again,
C A9
Perhaps to-morrow: however late I've patience
D Em D Em
After this night following on such a day.

Bm/E Am7
While still my temples ached from the cold burning
C
Of hail and wind, and still the primroses
Em
Torn by the hail were covered up in it,
D Em
The sun filled earth and heaven with a great light

And a tenderness, almost warmth, where the hail dripped,
As if the mighty sun wept tears of joy.
But 'twas too late for warmth. The sunset piled
Mountains on mountains of snow and ice in the west:

Somewhere among their folds the wind was lost,
And yet 'twas cold, and though I knew that Spring
Would come again, I knew it had not come,
That it was lost too in those mountains chill.

What did the thrushes know? Rain, snow, sleet, hail,
Had kept them quiet as the primroses.
They had but an hour to sing. On boughs they sang,
On gates, on ground; they sang while they changed perches

And while they fought, if they remembered to fight:
So earnest were they to pack into that hour
Their unwilling hoard of song before the moon
Grew brighter than the clouds. Then 'twas no time

For singing merely. So they could keep off silence
And night, they cared not what they sang or screamed;
Whether 'twas hoarse or sweet or fierce or soft;
And to me all was sweet: they could do no wrong.

Something they knew- I also, while they sang
And after. Not till night had half its stars
And never a cloud, was I aware of silence
Stained with all that hour's songs, a silence
Saying that Spring returns, perhaps to-morrow.
Edward Thomas

Em: 0xxx00 - 0xxx07 - 0xxx05 - 0xxx03
C: x3xx10
A9: x0xx57
D: x5777x
Bm/E: 0xx432
Am7: x0201x

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from Poetry and Music 11, released July 29, 2017

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