Sang the sun rise on an amber morn - <br />'Earth, be glad! An April day is born. <br /> <br />'Winter's done, and April's in the skies, <br />Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!' <br /> <br />Putting off her dumb dismay of snow, <br />Earth bade all her unseen children grow. <br /> <br />Then the sound of growing in the air <br />Rose to God a liturgy of prayer; <br /> <br />And the thronged succession of the days <br />Uttered up to God a psalm of praise. <br /> <br />Laughed the running sap in every vein, <br />Laughed the running flurries of warm rain, <br /> <br />Laughed the life in every wandering root, <br />Laughed the tingling cells of bud and shoot. <br /> <br />God in all the concord of their mirth <br />Heard the adoration-song of Earth.<br /><br />Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-april-adoration/
