Oh, it was a merry, gladsome day, <br />When the April Fool met the Queen of May; <br />She had roguish eyes and golden hair, <br />And they were a mischief-making pair. <br />They planned the funniest kind of a joke <br />On the poor, long-suffering mortal folk; <br />And a few mysterious words he said, <br />His fool's cap close to her flower-crowned head. <br />Then he laughed till he made his cap-bells ring, <br />At the thought of the topsy-turvy Spring. <br />''Tis a fair exchange,' he said, with a wink-- <br />'It is!' she said, and what do you think? <br />The flowers that should bloom in the month of May <br />Every one of them came on an April day! <br />And they looked for April showers in vain, <br />But all through May it did nothing but rain!<br /><br />Carolyn Wells<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-april-joke/
