Spring is like a perhaps hand

"Spring is like a perhaps hand" is the second song of Dominick Argento's Songs About Spring cycle, which sets five poems of e. e. cummings.

"Spring is like a perhaps hand" can be found in cummings's 1925 volume &[AND].

Date: 1955Composer: Dominick ArgentoText: E. E. CummingsSong Collection: Songs About Spring

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Spring is like a perhaps hand
by e. e. cummings

Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
arranging and changing placing
carefully there a strange
thing and a known thing here)and

changing everything carefully

spring is like a perhaps
Hand in a window
(carefully to
and fro moving New and
Old things,while
people stare carefully
moving a perhaps
fraction of flower here placing
an inch of air there)and

without breaking anything.

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