Ah, what a changeling!
Yester you dashed from the west,
Altho’ it is Spring,
And scattered the hail with maniac zest
Thro’ the shivering corn — in scorn
For the labour of God and man.
And now from the plentiful South you haste,
With lovingest fingers,
To ruefully lift and wooingly fan
The lily that lingers a-faint on the stalk:
As if the chill waste
Of the earth's May-dreams,
The flowers so full of her joy,
Were not — as it seems —
A wanton attempt to destroy.